Manly, whose father was the Rev. Dr. Basil Manly, Sr. (Baptist minister, President of the University of Alabama and Chaplain to the Confederacy) and brother was Rev. Basil Manly, Jr. (Baptist minister and one of the founders of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), was a Baptist minister, a preacher of the Gospel, an educator and avid Confederate. He produced Peace in Believing during the war. This piece of literature became a Confederate Tract which was distributed among the soldiers. There is also included a biographical sketch of Dr. Manly. 26 pages