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Brannan, John Milton
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From: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Date: 20010101
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Brannan, John Milton
(1819–92) Union army officer, born in Washington, D.C. In the Mexican War (1846–48), Brannan was awarded a captain's brevet for courageous performance at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco (both 1847). In the Civil War , the regular army brevetted Brannan a full colonel after Chickamauga (1863), where his division in Gen. George Thomas 's XIV Corps covered William S. Rosecrans 's panicked retreat, a stand that helped establish Thomas's reputation as the “Rock of Chickamauga.”Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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