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.
Cast
- Josh Radnor as Dr. Jed Foster
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Phinney
- McKinley Belcher III as Samuel Diggs
- Hannah James as Emma Green
- Tara Summers as Anne Hastings
- Norbert Leo Butz as Dr. Byron Hale
- AnnaSophia Robb as Alice Green
- Shalita Grant as Aurelia Johnson
- L. Scott Caldwell as Belinda Gibson
- Luke Macfarlane as Chaplain Henry Hopkins