BEAUMONT, EUGENE B. - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Major and Assistant Adjutant General, Cavalry
Corps, Army of the Mississippi.
Place and date: At Harpeth River, Tenn.,
17 December 1864; at Selma, Ala., 2 April 1865. Entered service at: Wilkes
Barre, Pa. Birth: Luzerne County, Pa. Date of issue: 30 March 1898. Citation:
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.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
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