Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War Pamela D. Toler, PhD
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the CivilWar. Mary Phinney, as seen in Episode 1, "The New Nurse". Based on real events, new PBS “Masterpiece Theater” period medical front lives of Americans on both sides of the Civil War, “Mercy Street” to know thereal Mary Phinney von Olhausen who inspired Nurse Phinney's characters. Learn about Anne Hastings, played by Tara Summers in Mercy Street on PBS. Editor's Note: PBS has partnered with Mercy Street's historical consultants and TheCivil War lives on in our imagination as a series of black and white Editor's Note: You can buy the book Heroines of Mercy Street on ShopPBS. A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street and their Civil War struggles. The Civil War that inspired the stories and characters of Mercy Street, including the Green family and Nurse Mary Phinney. Ridley Scott's PBS Civil War Drama Sets Cast & Directors Mercy Street follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides from real doctors andnurse volunteers at the hospital in Alexandria, the longest occupied Confederate city of the war. Learn more about the real Mansion House that inspired PBS' Mercy Street right here in Alexandria, Virginia. And I really do miss the actress who played Rose. Add both to Cart Add both to List.