“Up the River of Death
Sailed the Great Admiral!”
The River Fight (published 1864).
Henry Howard Brownell was an American poet and historian.
“Up the River of Death
Sailed the Great Admiral!”
The River Fight (published 1864).
“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.