Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Assistant Engineer J. L. Lay” in chapter 36 of Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War.:

...ill's Point was reinforced by the Southfield, Whitehead and Seymour, from Plymouth. In the meantime the Commodore Hull and Louisiana, and an armed transport called the Eagle, under charge of Second- Assistant Engineer J. L. Lay and Assistant Paymaster W. W. Williams, of the Louisiana, as volunteers, were almost continually engaged with the enemy's batteries opposite Washington, until the morning of the 4th, when the Ceres m...
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