Mercy Street: Pilot

This is something new for Masterpiece Theater. A show set in America and with American actors.
It is 1862 and the Civil War is all that is talked about but the characters are naive and believe that it will end soon, in only a matter of weeks, months at the most.
Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is a young widow, with some nursing training who is desperate to help aid wounded soldiers, but only those on the union side. She immediately clashes heads with Dr. Foster (Josh Radnor), a Maryland surgeon who grew up with slaves and worked along side them.
Though Nurse Mary is clearly the lead and probably most-developed character, there are a lot of characters, on both sides of the war and some African Americans including, one (McKinley Belcher II) whom worked under a physician in Philadelphia and if he was allowed, he could save many lives.
Now, the plot is complicated, in addition to having those on both sides of the war, characters are on opposite sides of how to treat the injured, with different techniques, some more controversial than others and then there is who to treat first.
While I have no problem with the accuracy of the show, I don't understand how Nurse Mary would know that a Confederate soldier shot a Union soldier in cold blood after the Union guy tossed his weapon aside and it wasn't a good idea for a doctor who has a patient on the table to abandon that person to see another guy in pain when Nurse Mary had it under control with the main assistant of the African American orderly. And why is Mary a nurse when she gets squeamish around the sight and smell of blood. Okay, rant over.
The show is set in Alexandria Virginia and the Union has taken over a hotel owned by the Green family, some of the members include actors Gary Cole and AnnaSophia Robb, while it is the oldest daughter (Hannah James) decides that she should be a nurse, but she will have to learn that her dress isn't the most important thing ever.
Okay, I guess I'll tell you my predictions. I believe that Mary and Dr. Foster will end up together as long as Dr. Foster doesn't have a drug addiction as he is looking at that syringe closely at the end of the episode. And at least one of the sweethearts of the Green daughters will die.
I will continue watching the show as Masterpiece has rarely created a show I haven't liked. Grade: B+