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John Milton Brannan
John Milton Brannan (July 1, 1819 – December 16, 1892) was a career American Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War, in command of the Department of Key West in Florida and assigned to Fort Zachary Taylor. His first wife was the daughter of Colonel Ichabod Crane; she mysteriously disappeared after taking a ferry from Staten Island to lower Manhattan and was presumed to have been murdered.
Early life and Mexico.
Brannan
the Battle of St. Johns Bluff, a bluff designed to stop the movement of Federal ships up the St. Johns River, was won by John Milton Brannan and about 1,500 infantry.
The flotilla arrived at the mouth of the St. John' s River on October 1, where Cdr. Charles Steedman' s gunboats—Paul Jones, Cimarron, Uncas, Patroon, Hale, and Water Witch—joined them. Brannan landed troops at Mayport Mills. The Bluff held off the Naval squadron until the troops were landed to come