Mercy Street

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Josh Radnor Dr. Jed Foster

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Mary Phinney

McKinley Belcher III Samuel Diggs

Hannah James Emma Green

Tara Summers Anne Hastings