Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War

by Pamela D. Toler

Book Overview

A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street.

Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316392065
• ISBN13: 9780316392068
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"