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Mercy Street’s Season Two Premiere: Radical Medical Procedures, Rebel Spies, 'That' Pinkerton, and the Plight of the Contrabands - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Season one of PBS’s Civil War hospital drama, Mercy Street, took historical accuracy seriously, often reflecting recent historiography. Even its annoyingly inaccurate storyline involving John Wilkes Booth’s plot to blow up the hospital during a Lincoln visit was loosely based on actual events. The season ended with a cliffhanger involving the brutal stabbing of one … Read More Read More