The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal John (Jean) Joseph Beaufort, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 20 May 1863, while serving with Company A, 2d Louisiana Infantry, in action at Port Hudson, Louisiana. Corporal Beaufort volunteered to go within the enemy’s lines and at the head of a party of eight destroyed a signal station, thereby greatly aiding in the operations against Port Hudson that immediately followed.