The sergeant : the incredible life of Nicholas Said : son of an African general, slave of the Ottomans, free man under the Tsars, hero of the Union Army
(2023)
By:
Calbreath, Dean
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
966.985/CALBREATH,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023
EDITION
First Pegasus Books edition
DESCRIPTION
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781639363247, 1639363246 :, 1639363246, 9781639363247
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"From his noble childhood in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery, the inspiring life-story of Nicholas Said is an epic journey that takes him from Africa and the Ottoman Empire through Czarist Russia and, finally, to heroic acclaim in the American Civil War"--