Mercy Street

Mercy Street is an American drama series which is aired on PBS. The series premiered on January 17, 2016.

Mercy Street follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposite sides of the Civil War: Mary Phinney, a New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a Confederate supporter. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Southern city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield into the lives of Americans on the home front of the Civil War as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in history. our country's history.