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

— Henry Howard Brownell

January 1, 1970

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19th-century poets from the United States Historians from the United States Poets from Rhode Island

Original Language: English

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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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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.