Heroines of Mercy Street Author:Pamela D. Toler Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at the Mansion House of Alexandria, Virginia, a mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War, were nurses who gave their time willingly t... more »o 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. Heroines of Mercy Street follows the lives of women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney, Anne Reading, and many more-- revealing their personal contributions to this astounding period in the advancement of medicine.« less