Brannan, John Milton

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John Milton Brannan
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    1
    Family
    John Brannan (father), Sarah Salome Myer (mother), Eliza Crane (first wife, 1850), Evelyn West Way (second wife, 1870)
    Education
    West Point (US Military Academy)
    Occupation
    Military
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Union Army
    US military (Post-Civil War)

    John Milton Brannan (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    The outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861 required Brannan either to join the southern rebellion or remain loyal to his country. He had grown up in a Southern city, his family had owned a slave, and he had spent much of his career in the South. Yet he had been exposed to nationalist influences while a boy working for Congress, while a young man studying at West Point, and while a professional soldier in the U.S. Army. Furthermore, his hometown was the nation's capital, which remained in Union hands. Leaving Key West, where he had spent three years, Brannan returned to Washington and accepted an appointment as a brigadier general of U.S. volunteers in September 1861. His first assignment involved maintaining the defenses of his native city that November.
    Dan R. Frost, "Brannan, John Milton," American National Biography Online, February 2000,http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00140.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Brannan, John Milton," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5183.