John Milton Brannan
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John Milton Brannan (July 1, 1819 – December 16, 1892) was a career United States Army artillery officer who served in the Mexican–American War and as a Union brigadier general of volunteers in the American Civil War, in command of the Department of Key West in Florida and assigned to Fort Zachary Taylor. Most notably, he served as a division commander of the Union XIV Corps at the Battle of Chickamauga.
John Milton Brannan | |
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Born | (1819-07-01)July 1, 1819 Washington, D.C. |
Died | December 16, 1892(1892-12-16) (aged 73) New York City, New York |
Place of burial | |
Allegiance | United States of America Union |
Service/ | United States Army Union Army |
Years of service | 1841–1882 |
Rank | Brigadier General Brevet Major General |
Unit | 1st U.S. Artillery 4th U.S. Artillery |
Commands held | Department of Key West Department of the South 3rd Division, XIV Corps Chief of Artillery, Army of the Cumberland |
Battles/wars | Mexican–American War
Fenian Raids Great Railroad Strike of 1877 |
Relations | Ichabod Bennet Crane (father in law) |
Brannan was scandalized by the highly publicized disappearance of his first wife, Eliza Crane Brannan, daughter of Colonel Ichabod Bennet Crane, in 1858; she mysteriously disappeared after taking a ferry from Staten Island to Lower Manhattan and was initially presumed to have committed suicide or been murdered, but it was later discovered that she had secretly fled to Europe and married another United States Army artillery officer, First Lieutenant Powell Wyman.