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- "Col. A. W. Putnam" . The Natchez Bulletin. Natchez, Mississippi. February 5, 1869. p. 1. Retrieved November 16, 2017– via Newspapers.com.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Fiske, John (1900). . In Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J. (eds.). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . New York: D. Appleton. p. 142.
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