Mollie Bean was a North Carolinian woman who, pretending to be a man, joined the 47th North Carolina Infantry, a regiment of the Confederate army in the American Civil War.

[4] Bean was described in the press as "manifestly crazy" and charged with being a "suspicious character", i.e. a spy.

[5] She was incarcerated at Richmond's wartime prison Castle Thunder,[1][6] where Mary and Molly Bell were held prisoners in October 1864.

[1] The Richmond Whig, which reported Bean's discovery on February 20, 1865, assumed that other soldiers in the company knew Bean was a woman; according to historian Elizabeth D. Leonard, this was likely not true.

[2] A fictionalized version of Bean is a major character in Harry Turtledove's alternative history novel The Guns of the South, where she is cast as a former prostitute.