Join Pulitzer and Polk Award-Winning Journalist Dean Calbreath as he discusses his new book “The Sergeant,” a biography of African-born Union Army sergeant Nicholas Said. Said traveled through Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Caribbean – picking up nine languages and encountering kings, queens and emperors – before arriving in the United States on the eve of the Civil War. In the war, Sergeant Said served directly under Lieutenant Thomas Foulds Ellsworth, who moved to Pasadena after the war. Learn about Said’s epic (and largely unknown) life, and his and Ellsworth’s role on the frontlines.

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