Florena Budwin is the first American woman to receive this honor.
- Be featured on a postage stamp
- Buried in a national cemetery
- Receive an Academy Award
- Win a Pulitzer Prize
Florena Budwin is the first American woman to receive this honor.
Buried in a national cemetery. Disguising herself as a man, Budwin joined the Union Army with her husband. In 1865, she was buried in the Florence National Cemetery in Florence, South Carolina.