Henry Howard Brownell

Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) was a Rhode Island-born poet of the Civil War. Admiral Farragut took him aboard his flagship at the Battle of Mobile Bay, which he described in The Bay Fight.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where they are printed under his or her name: The River Fight; The Bay Fight.