Help Identify this General

[AndyHall]

Does anyone know the source of the photos at generalsandbrevets dot com?

I think they're taken from anywhere and everywhere. I believe it was someone's personal site until the LoC discovered it, and found it useful enough to archive indefinitely.

 

[roberts]

If you look at the writing on the opposite side of the photo it looks like a date...

I think it may be 12/3/67... and the guy looks like Porter.

 

[roberts]

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General Horace Porter

an older Porter but look closely at the ears.... match???

 

[Mike Serpa]

Yes, you are right about the date! I shouldn't have cropped it. The ears in the OP seem wider at the top and taper to the bottom? The cauliflower ear (left ear) is not visible in these photos or in post #23. Also, bags under the eyes are quite conspicuous. More Horace Porter photos.

 

[ole]

He looks nothing like Ammen, but there is a considerable age difference between the photos; that is, if the photo of Ammen is actually Ammen.

 

[AndyHall]

Sorry, I don't see Porter.

 

[Mike Serpa]

Sorry, I don't see Porter.

View attachment 42742

Good job, Andy. Now compare with Andrew Porter, Fitz John Porter, John Porter Hatch, David D. Porter, William D. Porter, Edward Porter Alexander and Porter Wagoner. (I need to get better photo software.)

 

[Brendan]

My guess is Gen John J Milhan. I plugged the neighboring NA call #s in, thinking they might have just switched a couple up and got this result for the preceding #:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gen._John_J._Milhan_-_NARA_-_529114.jpg

It's Banks, is it not?

 

[NedBaldwin]

Brendan has done it.

In fact last year Mike had this same conversation, just in reverse:
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/who-is-this.86297/

 

[Brendan]

This newspaper article says Milhan was a surgeon, breveted Brigadier General "for meritorious and distinguished service at Hart's Island, New York Harbor, where cholera prevailed, to date from Sept 28, 1866." Which might also explain the bags under his eyes.

 

[suzenatale]

I wish we could get these mistakes fixed over at the NA. With the Chamberlain photo mistake the issue was fixed around 1980, but someone in more recent years must have thought the fix was a mistake and unfixed it.

 

[Littlestown]

My guess is Gen John J Milhan. I plugged the neighboring NA call #s in, thinking they might have just switched a couple up and got this result for the preceding #:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gen._John_J._Milhan_-_NARA_-_529114.jpg

It's Banks, is it not?

Good work Brendan! That's definitely the same guy!

 

[rbasin]

I wish we could get these mistakes fixed over at the NA. With the Chamberlain photo mistake the issue was fixed around 1980, but someone in more recent years must have thought the fix was a mistake and unfixed it.

Well, for every fix, there's someone else who thinks the fix is wrong.

 

[diane]

I'd sure never gotten Milhan out of those bottom parts of his name! But is this John J Milhan, the surgeon or is it John C Milhan the brigadier general? Or are these guys the same guy, just a mistake in the middle initial? (Sorry! Always somebody with a monkey wrench...)

 

[Littlestown]

I'd sure never gotten Milhan out of those bottom parts of his name! But is this John J Milhan, the surgeon or is it John C Milhan the brigadier general? Or are these guys the same guy, just a mistake in the middle initial? (Sorry! Always somebody with a monkey wrench...)

Oh no!

 

[Mike Serpa]

My guess is Gen John J Milhan. I plugged the neighboring NA call #s in, thinking they might have just switched a couple up and got this result for the preceding #:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gen._John_J._Milhan_-_NARA_-_529114.jpg

It's Banks, is it not?

Good job!

Brendan has done it.

In fact last year Mike had this same conversation, just in reverse:
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/who-is-this.86297/

I remember this but didn't put two and two together.

This newspaper article says Milhan was a surgeon, breveted Brigadier General "for meritorious and distinguished service at Hart's Island, New York Harbor, where cholera prevailed, to date from Sept 28, 1866." Which might also explain the bags under his eyes.

This fits with the 12/3/67 date on the photo. Sorry, I could not read the text.

I'd sure never gotten Milhan out of those bottom parts of his name! But is this John J Milhan, the surgeon or is it John C Milhan the brigadier general? Or are these guys the same guy, just a mistake in the middle initial? (Sorry! Always somebody with a monkey wrench...)

"I'd sure never gotten Milhan out of those bottom parts of his name!" me too. Maybe the same guy?
Corbis Images identifies him as John C. Milhan
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http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/IH083504/john-c-milhan

fold3 identifies him as John C. Milhan

http://www.fold3.com/image/4290020/

Excellent work everyone!! John Milhan it is. The middle initial is 'C' and the 'J' is an error by the National Archives?And the surgeon and general are the same person?

 

[donna]

To everyone great work. It seems mystery is solved.

 

[AndyHall]

Excellent job, everybody! This group never ceases to amaze with its resourcefulness.

(I may still do that side-by-side with Porter Wagoner, just to be sure.)

 

[cromagnondan]

LOL, I should have waited. Glad you guys figured it out. I was approaching it enhancing the name and date scratched into the original. I was working from the largest resolution photo I could find. The date is 12.3.65 and you see the lhan in this cropped image.

 

[cromagnondan]

Hey, and when you search Milhan in images.google.com, Fold3 has the same Brady image correctly identified. http://www.fold3.com/image/4290020/