Very little is known about the life of Warner A. Ross (1879–?). Publicly available sources offer only his name, his birth year, and one surviving work. The library holds a single title by him, My Colored Battalion. Judging from the title, the book concerns a battalion made up of soldiers of color and may be memoir or reportage in nature, touching on military organization, the lives of soldiers, and wartime experience; its exact background, date of composition, and narrative approach cannot be confirmed for lack of material. Ross's writing style and the actual influence of this work likewise lack sufficient documentary support, and only cautious inferences can be drawn from the title. Overall, Ross is an author with sparse records and a single known work, whose significance awaits further bibliographic and historical research.
