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Warren Lee Goss

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Warren Lee Goss

Birth
Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
20 Nov 1925 (aged 90)
Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
Burial
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
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Warren Lee Goss was an American writer, born in Brewster, Massachusetts, August 19, 1835. He studied at the Harvard Law School and later fought in the Civil War first with the United States engineers Co. B and later with Co. H 2d Massachusetts Volunteers. Following the war, Warren, was president and later historian of the National Union of ex Prisoners of War and was for two years national patriotic instructor of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a prolific writer and published numerous books and magazine articles based on his experiences in the Civil War, his most well known being “The Soldiers Story” published in 1866. In it Goss chronicles his experience as a prisoner of war in Belle Island and later on in Andersonville where he witnessed the many horrors of this infamous Southern prison. This volume remains an accurate record of everyday life experiences, along with the names of thousands of Union soldiers who suffered and died at Andersonville. Following the Civil War, a Congressional investigation looking into prisoner abuse by the South selected Warren Goss to present testimony. Goss was considered an expert witness on this subject and several sections of his publication were read into the public record as accurate representations of specific events.

Warren married Emily Antoinette Torbush, had one son who, following his graduation went into business in New York City. Warren and his wife soon moved their home from Norwich Connecticut to Rutherford, New Jersey to provide his only son a home. Warren died in 1925 in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Warren Lee Goss was an American writer, born in Brewster, Massachusetts, August 19, 1835. He studied at the Harvard Law School and later fought in the Civil War first with the United States engineers Co. B and later with Co. H 2d Massachusetts Volunteers. Following the war, Warren, was president and later historian of the National Union of ex Prisoners of War and was for two years national patriotic instructor of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a prolific writer and published numerous books and magazine articles based on his experiences in the Civil War, his most well known being “The Soldiers Story” published in 1866. In it Goss chronicles his experience as a prisoner of war in Belle Island and later on in Andersonville where he witnessed the many horrors of this infamous Southern prison. This volume remains an accurate record of everyday life experiences, along with the names of thousands of Union soldiers who suffered and died at Andersonville. Following the Civil War, a Congressional investigation looking into prisoner abuse by the South selected Warren Goss to present testimony. Goss was considered an expert witness on this subject and several sections of his publication were read into the public record as accurate representations of specific events.

Warren married Emily Antoinette Torbush, had one son who, following his graduation went into business in New York City. Warren and his wife soon moved their home from Norwich Connecticut to Rutherford, New Jersey to provide his only son a home. Warren died in 1925 in Rutherford, New Jersey.

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  • Created by: Dave
  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24557650/warren_lee-goss: accessed ), memorial page for Warren Lee Goss (19 Aug 1835–20 Nov 1925), Find a Grave Memorial ID 24557650, citing Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by Dave (contributor 46836855).