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Mercy Street | New PBS American Drama

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Nurse Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Jedediah Foster (Josh Radnor).

Sundays at 10pm on WKAR-HD 23.1 | Based on real events, MERCY STREET takes viewers 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.

Set in Virginia in the spring of 1862, the drama follows the lives of a distinctive cast of characters — doctors, nurses, contraband laborers and Southern loyalists — realizing the chaotic world of Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia, and the Mansion House Hospital in the early years of the Civil War.

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