Warren Lee Goss

Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, on August 19, 1835, Warren Lee Goss became known as an American writer whose work grew directly out of his Civil War service. Sources describe him as having studied at Harvard Law School before serving first with the United States Engineers and later with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers.

After the war, he wrote extensively about military life, captivity, and memory. He is especially associated with The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons and Recollections of a Private, books that drew on his own wartime experiences and helped preserve a soldier's-eye view of the conflict.

Goss was also active in veterans' organizations, serving as president and historian of the National Union of Ex-Prisoners of War and as a national patriotic instructor for the Grand Army of the Republic. He died on November 20, 1925, in Rutherford, New Jersey.