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Meredith Barber, tour guide for DC Military Tours, stops at Carlyle House which was turned into a Civil War hospital when Union troops took over Alexandria. Barber is giving the Sunday afternoon Mercy in Alexandria Walking Tour that connects the events in the PBS mini-series “Mercy Street” with the history in the city.

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“There is no real place called Mercy Street although it would have been right there on the 100th block of N. Fairfax Street," according to Meredith Barber, tour guide for DC Military Tours.

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