Talk:John Milton Brannan

Eliza Crane Brannan

Brannan’s wife was not murdered in Staten Island; she left Brannan and fled the country for Europe without notice in 1858, leading to the conclusion she had committed suicide or been killed. She later remarried (while still legally married to Brannan) Captain Powell T. Wyman of the US Army, ca. 1860, who was killed at Glendale in 1862. Brannan was made aware of this affair and successfully sued for divorce.

I will note and source this when I have time. Radar488 (talk) 04:54, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Regarding the events of July/August 1877

Good afternoon, {{@MILHIST}} I opened this thread because there seems to be disagreement on this page and I'm not interested in an edit war. I have added contemporary sources related to Brannan's service history during the 1877 railroad strike, all of which indicate he was stationed briefly in Philadelphia, PA. Another editor of this page states that Brannan was not in Philadelphia, but in Scranton, PA. I do not know if Brannan was ever stationed in Scranton, PA, during this time, though I have not seen anything to indicate that he was. All my documentation, however, supports the conclusion that he was in Philadelphia. Thanks. Radar488 (talk) 22:53, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

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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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Brannan's middle name

I typically don't care to have this kind of discussion on Wikipedia, but someone might be able to respond with a fresh perspective. Outside of postwar secondary sources, Heitman's Register of the United States Army, and far more modern sources (e.g, the Library of Congress website/NPS), has anyone ever seen anything from Brannan's lifetime which indicates that the initial "M" stood for Milton? Personally, I took it for granted that his name was John Milton Brannan, but on further inspection (including an autographed CDV in my collection) he signed his name as "J.M." or "Jno. M Brannan". It does not appear on his West Point application, nor in any signed documents I have ever seen. In a probate document that appears to be from his father, John Brannan, his name was listed as John Myer Brannan, which seems far more in keeping with common 19th century naming convention--Myer being his mother's maiden name. So essentially, I am wondering: has anyone seen anything contemporary to his lifetime to validate that his middle name was, in fact, Milton? Radar488 (talk) 05:04, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

I notice someone recently cited a recent source (about twenty years old) that recycles the same grist. I should clarify my query: outside of modern circular-referencing secondary sources, has anyone seen anything contemporary to Brannan’s lifetime which validates his middle name? Radar488 (talk) 00:18, 5 September 2024 (UTC)