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Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War

byPamela D. Toler

Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Heroines of Mercy Street rests its case on biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, making room for uncertainty while explaining what the surviving evidence can establish. Heroines of Mercy Street also examines the assumptions surrounding its subject, connecting them to wider arguments in biography & autobiography and history. Heroines of Mercy Street emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Little Brown & Company

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780316392068