Jerome Hotchkiss

In the Southern Victory series, Jerome Hotchkiss served as a Major in the army of the Confederate States of America. At some point he lost his left hand and it was replaced with a hook. He was assigned to fight the Red Rebellion in 1915 and attempted to put down the nascent Congaree Socialist Republic. When plantation owner Anne Colleton attempted to return to Marshlands, he turned her away, confiscating her car in the name of the CSA. He also parleyed with Scipio over a prisoner exchange.

During the death throes of the Republic, an escaping Scipio who had found a chicken in the swamps ran into Hotchkiss and he demanded that Scipio turn the chicken over to him. Scipio agreed and then Hotchkiss recognised Scipio as the man he parleyed with months earlier. Before he could draw his firearm, Scipio brained him with a rock knocking him to the floor and then proceeded to beat him over the head repearedly until Hotchkiss was dead.