Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Captain Wm. S. Hotchkiss” in year 1863, month August, day 17 of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864:

...Fourth Massachusetts and Twenty-eighth Maine regiments passed through Buffalo, New York, en route for home.--an order, regulating the discharge of prisoners, was issued from the War Department. Captain Wm. S. Hotchkiss , commander of the Union gunboat General Putnam, was killed while engaged in an expedition up the Piankatank River, Va., by a party of guerrillas.
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