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CIVIL WAR VETERANS - Mollie Bean
Biography:
Very little is really known about Mollie Bean. We do know that she was from North Carolina. Dressed as a man, she joined the 47th North Carolina sometime in 1863.
On the night of Feb. 7, 1865, she was captured in uniform by Union forces outside of Richmond, Va. She was questioned at the Provost Marshall's office. She told them she'd been with the 47th North Carolina for two years, and had been wounded twice. Given that unit's record in 1863, her statement indicates she may have fought at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Once her true gender was disclosed, she was accused of being both a spy and "manifestly crazy", and incarcerated at Richmond's wartime prison Castle Thunder.
She is a major character in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel "The Guns of the South".
