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Medal of Honor Recipient

Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont

U.S. Army · U.S. Civil War

MOH-RC-000578Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1898

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Medal of Honor

December 17, 1864 and April 2, 1865

Harpeth River, Tennessee & Selma, Alabama, USA

Rank at action
Major and Assistant Adjutant General
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
U.S. Civil War
Unit or command
Cavalry Corps, Army of the Mississippi
Presentation date
March 30, 1898

The Citation

Sources ↓
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, Ala., charged, at the head of his regiment, into the second and last line of the enemy's works.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

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.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-26

    official two-action dates, places, rank, unit, and citation

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000584
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Other source date wording
1865-04-02
Later or highest recorded rank
Colonel
Entered service at
Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Archive transcription SHA-256
b204cc56c3953116436dd215278ea61a5cc7ef8fbb843a838d57e34fa5c778c0

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The canonical award preserves both officially documented actions rather than retaining only the inherited Selma date. Major and Assistant Adjutant General is the action-rank wording; Colonel is preserved as the later/highest rank.

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