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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.

MERCY STREET | Coming in January | PBS

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Phinney

McKinley Belcher III

Samuel Diggs

Suzanne Bertish

Matron Brannan

AnnaSophia Robb

Alice Green

Norbert Leo Butz

Dr. Byron Hale

Josh Radnor

Dr. Jed Foster

Hannah James

Emma Green

Tara Summers

Anne Hastings

Shalita Grant

Aurelia Johnson

L. Scott Caldwell

Belinda Gibson

Luke Macfarlane

Chaplain Henry Hopkins

Peter Gerety

Dr. Alfred Summers

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