-----Original Message-----
From: Holland, Claudia 
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:01 PM
To: Levy, Suzanne S.
Subject: RE: Oscar James Dunn - 1st or 2nd Reg. New Orleans


Hi Suzanne,
 
This person could contact librarians (e.g., Judy Bolton) at LSU in the
Louisiana & Lower Mississippi Valley Collection (e.g.,
http://lsu.louislibraries.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X/0/123/) as well as in
the Historic New Orleans Collection to see if either of these places
have materials attributed to OJD, although I don't see much online.
There are primary materials published in various government docs,
according to the ANB
http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/c
hpXVI/Oscar%20James%20Dunn.%20%20Black%20Reconstructionist.htm.  Dunn's
letters to Grant apparently are held in the National Archives.  Has this
person looked in the NARA or LC catalogs?  Here's an entry for a litho
of Dunn held at LC:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3g0
5947)). 
 
This should get the person started, anyway.  Any good Civil War or
Reconstruction histories of Louisiana should include info on OJD.
 
Hope this helps,
 
Claudia
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Levy, Suzanne S. 
Sent: Wed 12/1/2004 4:47 PM 
To: Holland, Claudia 
Cc: 
Subject: FW: Oscar James Dunn - 1st or 2nd Reg. New Orleans



        Any ideas on this one? 

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        From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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        Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:42 PM 
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        Subject: Oscar James Dunn - 1st or 2nd Reg. New Orleans 


        I'm searching for primary and secondary sources which might
highlight the service careet of Oscar James Dunn. He states in several
interviews that is helps to muster the 1st or the 2nd Reg. of New
Orleans, and rises from the rank of private to captain before being
mustered out by Gen. Banks. I have been unsuccesful in recovering
government documents in regard to his military service and would
appreciate any assistance which could be rendered . Dunn would later
become Louisiana's first black Lt. Governor .

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