Background
Goss, Warren Lee was born on August 19, 1835 in Brewster, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William W. and Hannah (Foster) Goss.
Goss, Warren Lee was born on August 19, 1835 in Brewster, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William W. and Hannah (Foster) Goss.
Educated Pierce Academy, Middleboro, Massachusetts, and (1860-1861) Harvard Law School. Private in the United States engineers, 1861-1862. Reënlisted, November 1863, sergeant Company H, 2nd Massachusetts Regiment.
Was prisoner of war at Libby, Belle Isle, Virginia, and Andersonville, Georgia.
Also at Charleston Fair Ground and Florence, South Carolina. Discharged, November 1865.
1 son, Harry T. Largely engaged as editor and magazine writer President, 1873-1876, and historian, 1890, National Union of Ex-Prisoners of War. Was for 5 years on staff of commander-in-chief G.A.R., 2 years as national patriotic instructor Author: The Soldier’s Story of Captivity at Andersonville, 1866.
Jed, 1889.
Tom Clifton, 1892. Jack Alden, 1895. The Recollections of a Private, 1890 (1st 8 chapters previously published in Century War Series, 1887, and in “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,” 1888). In the Navy, 1898; Boys’ and Girls’ Life of Grant, 1911.
The Boy’s Life of General Sheridan, 1913.
Jed’s Boy, 1919; Jack Gregory. Home: Rutherford, New Jersey.
Married Emily A. Torbush, 1871.