John B. Pannes

He immigrated from Germany in about 1857. At age 23 he enlisted April 23, 1861 at New York City, and mustered in as Private, Company A on May 4, to serve two years. Promoted Sergeant on October 14, 1861 and to Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant on March 20, 1862.

In his after-action report, Colonel Kimball said "I cannot close this report without calling your special attention to the Quartermaster-Sergeant Pannes (slightly wounded)..."

He mustered out with the regiment on May 20, 1863. In June he enrolled as Quartermaster of the 9th Veteran Infantry, but that unit failed to organize by October 1863, and he transferred to the 17th NY Veteran Infantry as First Lieutenant, Company I on 30 December 1863. He was acting Ordnance Officer of the 16th Army Corps in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. He was appointed Captain and Aide-de-Camp on 23 March 1865 and discharged on 12 October 1865.

He studied the law in New York and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He formed a firm with fellow Zouaves (Colonel) Rush Hawkins and (Lieutenant) George A. C. Barnett - Hawkins, Barnett, & Pannes, which he operated until 1907.

Service data from State of New York1 and Heitman2. Further information from his gravesite on Findagrave.

1838; Cologne, PRUSSIA

03/07/1909; New York City, NY; burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY