Henry Howard Brownell Quotes

Henry Howard Brownell was an American poet and historian.

✵ 6. February 1820 – 1872
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Famous Henry Howard Brownell Quotes

“Up the River of Death
Sailed the Great Admiral!”

Henry Howard Brownell

The River Fight (published 1864).

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

Henry Howard Brownell

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.

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