Henry Howard Brownell Quote

You might have deemed our long gun-deck
Two hundred feet of hell.


The River Fight (published 1864). Compare: "War is hell", attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman; "This is the soldier brave enough to tell, The glory-dazzled world that 'war is hell'", Henry van Dyke, On the St. Gaudens Statue of Sherman.


You might have deemed our long gun-deck Two hundred feet of hell.

You might have deemed our long gun-deck Two hundred feet of hell.

You might have deemed our long gun-deck Two hundred feet of hell.

You might have deemed our long gun-deck Two hundred feet of hell.