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- ↑ Private Pleasant Richardson Memorial Service. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. May 27, 2017.
- ↑ Whitt, R. Michael. 2011. "Free Indeed!: Trials and Triumphs of Enslaved and Freedmen in Antebellum Virginia". Virginia Baptist Register. 50: 2777-2937. Notes: Includes ill., ports., and photos. Title from table of contents. Includes biographical information about numerous slaves, African American Baptist congregants, clergy (both White and African American) and others associated with early African American Baptists in Virginia as well as information about specific early Virginia African American churches and congregations.
- ↑ ""Finding What has been Lost": An Initial Exhibit of African American History of Botetourt County, Virginia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
- ↑ Snider, Donald A., Rena Worthen, Loretta Caldwell, Judith Barnett, and Louis R. Showalter. Midway School, Church and Cemetery. Daleville, Virginia: Donald A. Snider, P.O. Box 503, Daleville, Virginia, 24083, 2009.
- ↑ Moore, Roddy, Vaughan Web, Toni Distler, and Daniel Womack. Black Musical Traditions in Virginia: Religious Music. Virginia: Foundation for the Humanities, 1980. Responsibility: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College. Abstract: Presents an objective view of the development of Afro-American religious music, linking the past with the present.
- ↑ Rousseau, Heather. 2017. "Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War honor the memory of Private Pleasant Richardson." Roanoke Times. May 27, 2017.
- ↑ Fincastle Herald. June 4, 1935.
- ↑ FindaGrave.com