Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Putnam, Sallie A. Brock

PUTNAM, Sallie A. Brock, author, b. in Madison Court-House, Va., about 1845. She was educated by private tutors, and early developed a taste for literature. She married the Rev. Richard Putnam, of New York, in 1883. Her publications include “Richmond During the War,” under the pen-name of “Virginia Madison” (New York, 1867); “The Southern Amaranth” (1868); and “Kenneth My King” (1872). She has in preparation “Poets and Poetry of America.”