The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Major & Assistant Adjutant General Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 17 December 1864 while serving with Cavalry Corps, Army of Mississippi, in action at Harpeth River, Tennessee. Major Beaumont obtained permission from the Corps Commander to advance upon the 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, Alabama, on 2 April 1865, he charged, at the head of his regiment, into the second and last line of the enemy’s works.