Mercy Street(2016)
Overview
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.
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Top 10 Billed Cast
Dr. Jed Foster
Mary Phinney
Samuel Diggs
Emma Green
Anne Hastings
Dr. Byron Hale
Alice Green
Aurelia Johnson
Belinda Gibson
Chaplain Henry Hopkins
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