Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lieutenant W. B. Cushing” in chapter 3.58 of L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion:

...lume, and which had become a formidable obstruction to the occupation of the North Carolina sounds by the Union forces, finally met her fate in October of the same year. During the previous summer, Lieutenant W. B. Cushing , commanding the Monticello, one of the sixteen vessels engaged in watching the ram, conceived the plan of destroying their antagonist by means of a torpedo. Upon submitting the plan to Rear-Admir...
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