Mercy Street

Overview

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.

Created by David Zabel, Lisa Q. Wolfinger

Network

• PBS

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Josh Radnor

  Dr. Jed Foster

  12 eps

• 

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Mary Phinney

  12 eps

• 

  McKinley Belcher III

  Samuel Diggs

  12 eps

• 

  Hannah James

  Emma Green

  12 eps

Themes

• nurse
• historical fiction
• period drama
• union soldier
• confederate soldier
• american civil war
• historical drama

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