U.S. Civil War - U.S. Army

Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont

• Rank: Major and Assistant Adjutant General (Highest Rank: Colonel)
• Conflict/Era: U.S. Civil War
• Unit/Command:
  Cavalry Corps,
  Army of the Mississippi
• Military Service Branch: U.S. Army
• Medal of Honor Action Date: April 2, 1865
• Medal of Honor Action Place: Harpeth River & Selma, Tennessee & Alabama, USA

Obtained permission from the corps commander to advance upon enemy's position with the 4th U.S. Cavalry, of which he was a lieutenant; led an attack upon a battery, dispersed the enemy and captured the guns. At Selma, Ala., charged, at the head of his regiment, into the second and last line of the enemy's works.