Florena Budwin

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Florena Budwin was a woman who disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Union army with her husband. They were both captured and confined at Andersonville, where her husband died. She remained in prison until it was threatened by the Union, and was then transferred to the Florence Stockade in Florence, South Carolina. She became ill in a disease epidemic and her sex was discovered by a doctor. She died of disease on January 25, 1865. Upon her death, she became the first woman to be buried in a national cemetery.