This issue of On Second Thought features living history scholars who portrayed Frederick Douglass and Clara Barton. Other scholars portrayed Dr. William Jayne, the personal physician of President Lincoln and also the first governor of Dakota Territory; Little Crow who led the the Eastern Dakota in the ill-fated 1862 Dakota Conflict in Minnesota; and Brigadier General Ely Parker, the Seneca Indian who served in General Grant's field staff during the Civil War, Parker who wrote the surrender papers which were signed by General Lee, and Parker who served as the first Indian Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Read and share this issue that explores the Civil War in different and unexpected places across the country.