John Milton Brannan

John Milton Brannan
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	West Point Cemetery
Allegiance	United States Union
Service / branch	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	Department of Key West Department of the South 3rd Division, XIV Corps Chief of Artillery, Army of the Cumberland
Battles / wars	Mexican–American War Battle of Cerro Gordo Battle of Contreras Battle of Churubusco Battle of Mexico City Third Seminole War American Civil War Battle of Saint John's Bluff Battle of Chickamauga Chattanooga Campaign Atlanta Campaign Fenian Raids Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Relations	Ichabod Bennet Crane (father in law)

John Milton Brannan (July 1, 1819 – December 16, 1892) was an American military officer who served with distinction in the Mexican–American War as a United States Army artillery officer and as a Union Army brigadier general of United States Volunteers in the American Civil War. Brannan held command of the Department of Key West at Fort Zachary Taylor, Florida, part of the Union effort to hold federal installations within Confederate territories early in the war. Later, and most notably, he served as a division commander of the Union XIV Corps at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.

Brannan was scandalized by the highly publicized disappearance of his first wife, Eliza Crane Brannan, daughter of Colonel Ichabod B. 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 T. Wyman.