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Warren Lee Goss
1835–1925
A Civil War veteran and prolific writer, Warren Lee Goss turned his experiences as a Union soldier and prisoner of war into vivid accounts of military life. His memoirs and children’s books brought history, courage, and adventure to generations of readers.
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Jed's boy : a story of adventures in the great world war
by Warren Lee Goss
About the author
Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, in 1835, Warren Lee Goss studied at Pierce Academy in Middleborough and attended Harvard Law School in 1860–61. He enlisted as a private in the Union engineer corps during the Civil War, was captured twice, and held at prisons including Libby Prison and Andersonville before being honorably discharged in 1865.
Goss drew on those experiences in The Soldier’s Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons (1866) and Recollections of a Private (1890), works valued for their firsthand view of life among ordinary soldiers. After the war, he worked as an editor and magazine writer, published children’s fiction and biographies of figures such as Ulysses S. Grant and Philip Sheridan, and took an active role in veterans’ organizations.