Herman Melville: All the cruel carnal glory wrought out by naval heroes

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Herman Melville: Selections on peace and war ==== Herman MelvilleFrom White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War The spirit-room was broken open, and buckets of grog were passed along the decks, where many of the wounded were lying between the guns. […]

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