02065cam a2200397 i 4500 513105388 TxAuBib 20160426120000.0 160426s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015953905 9780316392075 hardcover 0316392073 hardcover (OCoLC)923649614 YDXCP eng rda YDXCP BTCTA BDX GK8 LEHIC OCLCO ON8 IFJ CGP SPP ZQP OCO FM0 ZHB ILC ZCU UAB TxAuBib rda Toler, Pamela D. Heroines of Mercy Street : the real nurses of the Civil War / Pamela D. Toler, PhD. ; foreword by Ridley Scott. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. ©2016. viii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Companion to Mercy Street on PBS"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index. Dorothea Dix goes to war -- The army is unprepared -- Volunteers -- Nurses on the hospital transport ships -- Arriving at Mansion House Hospital -- Learning by experience -- Becoming indispensable -- Leaving Mansion house Hospital -- Reporting back to duty -- After the war -- Afterword: a different viewpoint. "Tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia hotel turned wartime hospital, and the setting for the PBS show Mercy Street"-- Publisher's description. 20160426. Dix, Dorothea Lynde 1802-1887. Olnhausen, Mary Phinney von 1818-1902. Reading, Anne. Nurses United States Biography. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical care. Scott, Ridley, author of foreword. Mercy Street (Television program) NbLL)1448068.