Mercy Street
Created by David Zabel, Lisa Q. Wolfinger
On PBS
A period drama centered on two nurses navigating moral conflict and human connection amid the Civil War's unprecedented suffering, grounded in historical detail and intimate character study.
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.
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