Georgie A. Hulse McLeod (née, Hulse; pen name, various, including Mary A. Holmes and Flora Neale; 1827–1890) was a 19th-century author and hymnwriter of Southern United States literature, as well as an educator and temperance activist.
[2] She received encouragement from Lydia Sigourney, while Dr. Benjamin Franklin Thompson, the Long Island historian, was also one of McLeod's steadfast friends.
He was a Canadian divine and editor of the official organ of the Wesleyan Methodists of the lower provinces.
[1][5][6][3] Since the end of the civil war, she published Sea-Drifts (1867), a collection of largely serious stories embracing poems.
[7] McLeod was also the author of Bright Memories, very similar to Sea-Drifts, except possibly more religious.
[7] McLeod was a constant contributor to magazines, in the North and the South, under the signature of "Flora Neale", and other noms de plume.
[5] She gave free tuition to one young lady, the daughter of a deceased Confederate soldier, from each Southern State.