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John Milton Brannan
(1819–1892) was a career
United States Army
artillery officer who served in the
Mexican–American War
and as a
Union Army
brigadier general of
volunteers
in the
American Civil War
. He was in command of the Department of Key West in Florida and assigned to
Fort Zachary Taylor
. Most notably, Brannan served as a division commander of the Union XIV Corps at the
Battle of Chickamauga
in 1863. This photograph of Brannan was produced by the studio of the American photographer
Mathew Brady
circa the 1860s.
Photograph credit: studio of
Mathew Brady
; restored by
Adam Cuerden
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