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Sources consulted for the biography of:Ralza Morse Manly (1822–1897)
Biographical Information
- Birth and death dates on gravestone, Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, California
- Second marriage in Michigan Marriage Register, 1868–1925, Genesee County, Michigan Department of Community Health
- Luther Tracy Townsend, History of the Sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers (1897), 348–349
- Alumni Record of Wesleyan University (1911), 92 (with first marriage date)
- Manley Family Newsletter 3 (April 1984): 1–7
- Mary Patterson Manly to Virginius Douglas Johnston, May 12, 1933, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
Primary Sources
- Ralza Morse Manly memorial program, muster-out roll, and Richmond Educational Association minute book, all in Ralza M. Manly Collection, City Records Center, Richmond Public Library, Richmond, Virginia
- Civil War service in R. M. Manly, 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry, Compiled Service Military Records, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Manly correspondence in:
- American Missionary Association Archives, Home Missions and Schools–Virginia, esp. 1864–1865, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870, Record Group 105, M1053, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Manly's reports to the Freedmen's Bureau printed in United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Semi-Annual Reports on Schools for Freedmen (1866–1870)
- Richmond City Council Records Nos. 16 (1866–1870), 17 (1870–1872), 18 (1873–1874; 1874–1903), Library of Virginia
- Virginia School Report, 1871: First Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction... (1871), 203–204
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 26, 1871; May 25, 1872; October 16, 1873; November 5, 1873; May 29, 1874; October 23, 1877
Obituaries
- San Diego Union, September 17, 1897
- Boston Zion's Herald, November 24, 1897
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