John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
7446 Henry Howard Brownell 1820-1872 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 7446 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
| QUOTATION: | You might have deemed our long gun-deck Two hundred feet of hell. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The River Fight. |
| Note 1. Remark attributed to General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891): War is hell. Henry van Dyke: On the St. Gaudens Statue of Sherman:— This is the soldier brave enough to tell The glory-dazzled world that “war is hell.” [back] |