{"id":8695,"date":"2016-01-28T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2016-01-28T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T13:41:57","slug":"mercy-street-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2016\/01\/28\/mercy-street-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Street&#8217;s premise parallels Nashville family&#8217;s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rob DeHart<br \/>\nTennessee State Museum<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/mercy-street\/home\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Rob-DeHart-headshot-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Rob DeHart headshot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Rob-DeHart-headshot-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Rob-DeHart-headshot-144x144.jpeg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Mercy Street<\/a> is set in Alexandria, Va., but it could have easily been set here in Nashville. After the start of its occupation of the city in February 1862, the Union Army established more than 20 hospitals in confiscated schools, churches and private residences in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>By early 1863, wounded and sick soldiers from both sides were pouring into Nashville. Union Army doctors did not always provide the best medical treatment for captured Confederate soldiers. Nashville\u2019s citizens took notice and, as Emma Green did in <strong>Mercy Street,<\/strong> a group of women protested the treatment of wounded Confederate soldiers in Union Army hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Union commander Robert B. Mitchell issued an order requiring three \u201csecession families\u201d to house 15 wounded Confederates each. Brig. Gen. Mitchell\u2019s order had less to do with his concern for the wounded and more to do with his irritation at the women\u2019s protest, which in his words occurred \u201cthrough the mud of the public streets of this city unmindful of the inclemency of the weather.\u201d With his order, Mitchell essentially said: Fine. You don\u2019t like how we treat your wounded? Take care of them yourself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8697\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8697 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Medora-Carter-Stephens-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Medora Carter Stephens\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Medora-Carter-Stephens-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Medora-Carter-Stephens.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medora Carter Stephens. Courtesy Tennessee State Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time, Alex and Mildred Carter lived in a house on Fourth Avenue between Church and Commerce streets, and Alex owned a business on Union Street that served as a grocery and saloon. The Carters\u2019 home was requisitioned by the Union Army for use as a Confederate hospital just as the Green family\u2019s hotel was in the series. Moreover, the family, not the U.S. government, was made responsible for providing bedding, food and medical supplies for the wounded. Mitchell\u2019s order also came with a threat: If any of the Confederate prisoners of war escaped, the Union Army would permanently take the Carters\u2019 property. Union soldiers stood guard outside the Carter home day and night while Union surgeons visited the wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Carters\u2019 daughter, Medora, was 23 when the Union Army marched down Broad Street and took control of the city. Medora Carter likely became a nurse very soon after her home became a hospital, but what happened next shows the unpredictability of those times. Just eight months later, Medora married Joseph Stephens, a Union surgeon from Ohio. While we do not know how the family reacted to the marriage, we do know it ended in tragedy in 1865 when Medora died shortly after giving birth to the couple\u2019s only child.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Stephens returned to Ohio after the war, and census records suggest that the Stephens\u2019 daughter, also named Medora, spent time living both with her father up North and her grandparents in Nashville. Fortunately for posterity, the Carter family preserved Civil War mementos that are now part of the Tennessee State Museum\u2019s collection. These items now help to tell the stories of families who never sent a son to a battlefield, but who felt the loss of war all the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mercy Street<\/strong> airs 9 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 21, with a midweek encore Thursdays at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Rob DeHart is a curator at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville where he specializes in technology and cultural history. DeHart received his M.A. in public history from Middle Tennessee State University and is a peer reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rob DeHart Tennessee State Museum Mercy Street is set in Alexandria, Va., but it could have easily been set here in Nashville. 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