Bibliograph

Heroines of Mercy Street, Pamela D. Toler

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Heroines of Mercy Street, Pamela D. Toler

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

history

Main title

Heroines of Mercy Street

Medium

compact disc

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Oclc number

928110942

Responsibility statement

Pamela D. Toler

Summary

Telling the true stories of the nurses at the Mansion House of Alexandria, Virginia, and a mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new 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 of the Civil War, were nurses who gave their time freely and willingly to save lives and aid the wounded. These women saw casualties on a scale Americans had never seen before, and medicine was at a turning point. The lives of women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney, Anne Reading, and more before, during, and after their epic struggle in Alexandria and reveals their personal contributions to this astounding period in the advancement of medicine

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