The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-07-06
Gen. E.F. yoyes.

=" Gen. z. ?. YOyes.
- Edward FUlIansbee Noyes wa
y. born at Hayerhill, Massachusetts
- October 81 1882. His parents havin
= died in his infancy, at the age Of thin
teen years he was apPrenticed b
I his guardian as a printer boy in tn
office Of the Morning .SydF, a religion
. newspaper published at Dover, NeV
/, Hampshire. In this position he re
!, mained four and a half years, AM
= then began preparing for College, 4
q Kingston Academy. Rockingham
p county, New Hampshire. He enter
/. ell Dartmouth College in 1853, an,
. four years after he graduated, ranking
!, fourth in class numbering gfifty-seven
4 He Immediately removed to Gin
:. cinnati and studied law with NJ. F.
: COrwin, Esq, graduating in the Gin
- cinnati Law School in 1SjS. Th'
.. same year he began the practice O
, law, and was in the successful prose
cutiOn Of his profession at the break
ing out Of the rebellion. On the Stl
/ Of July, 1861, his law office was chang.
ed to recruiting headquarters, and in
less than one month a full regiment
/, was raised and ready for the field. Oi
this regiment (the Thirty-ninth Ohio
, Infantry, Dhe was commissioned Major
to rank from July y, 1861. In this
rank he continued with the command
during all its marches in Missouri,
and under General Pope during the
advance and final capture Of New
Madrid and Island No. 10. Still un-
der POpe's command, he took part in
all the slIirmisheS and engagements
! Of General Halleck's left wing in front
of COrinth and on the heights of Far
mingtOn. Upon the resignation Of
. Col. Groesbeck and the promotion Of
Lieut.. Col. Gilbert, he was commits
stoned Lieutenant Colonel July S, 1862,
and in this rank took part, under Glen.
ROsecrans, in the battle of Iuka,
Mississippi, September 10, 1862, and in
7 the bloody engagements at COrinth,
Oct. Sd and 4th. On the lst of Oct1-
/ Der, 1862, he was commissioned Colo
mel vice Gilbert, resigned, and in De-
| cember following he commanded the
regiment in the battle of Parker's
! Cross Roads, where the rebel forces
I under General Forrest were defeated
with great loss. From this time to
! the beginning of the Atlanta cam
| paign he commanded his regiment in
/ its various movements and its garri-
son dutyat Corinth and Memphis, and
its bridge building OH the railroad I'm
Middle Tennessee. r
awhile engaged i'm this latter duty
at Prospect, Tennessee, the subject of
veteran re-enlistment began to engage
the attention of the troops. Col.
NOyes, with 4 quick perception of its
necessity, threw the whole weight of
his influence into the work of re-en-
listing his regiment He was so earn |
est in the matter, and so industriOusly
advocated it, that he fully aroused 1
the spirit Of his excellent regiment, /
and as 4 result the 39th Ohio gave to |
the country a much larger number of I
veterans than any other Ohio regi- I
ment. His zeal had its effect also OH |
other officers in the command, and 4
was doubtless instrumental i'm render /
ing the veteran movement 50 pOpu- (
lar in Gen. DOdge's district. Gen. /
NOyes commanded his veterans in .
the famous Atlanta campaign until .
July 4, 1864, being i'm the engagement /
at Resaca, May 9, II, 10, and Il; at
Dallas and at kenesaw Mountain
On the 4th Of July, while in com
mand of an assault on the enemy's .
works near Rufl7s Mills, on NicOiacll
Creek, he received a wound which re-
suited i'm the loss of Il leg. This COM
PEELED him to Telinquish for the first
time his active connection with his
command. After having partially re-
covered from two amputatiOns, and
while yet OF crutehes he reported for
duty to General Hooker, and was by
him assigned TO The command Of
Camp DennisOn, where he remained
until April -, 1865, when he resigned
to accept the position of Attorney
City SOlicitOr) for the city Of Cincin-
natl, an Office To which he had been
elected while absent in the army. In
October, 1866, he was elected Probate
Judge of Hamilton Co, on the Re
publican ticket. Col. Nsyes was with
his regiment on every march, and in
every battle and skirmish in which
the command was engaged from the
time of entering the service, in July,
1861, until he lost leg in battle in
1854 That he had the love and re-
spect of his men is evident from the {
fact already stated that he induced 50 ,
many of them TO re-enlist. He enjoy
ed the confidence of his superior Olli-
GERS, rs is shown by the warm recon-
received for promotions
from Generals John Pope, w. S. Rose
Grams, ID. 5. Stanley, G.. NJ. Dodge and
w. T. Sherman, The latter says. Il
was standing close by when Col.
Moves was shot. We were pressing !
JohnsOn's army back from Marietta,
when he made stand at Smyrna
camp ground, and / ordered his posi-
ton to he attacked. 1t was done sue (
cessfully and at some loss, and Colo
mel Noyes lost his leg. He fully mer-
its his honorable title.' Col. NOyes
was a strict disciplinarian, and it was
said Of him that he had in some way
to have n greater number of
men present for duty than any other
equal regiment in the command
Yet he was impartial and uniformly
kind to all who We're disposed to do ;
their duty. While he insisted on be
ing implicitly obeyed by his subordin-
ates, he was always ready to obey
questioning the commands of
his sUperiOrs, and had the satisfaction
Of knowing, when the war was over,
that his regiment had never turned I
their backs TO the enemy in battle or I
skirmish from the first TO last.
Having been recommended for pro-
motion to the full rank of Brigadier
before he was wounded, he
received, after he was disabled for ac-
tive service a commission rs Brevet
Brigadier General, to date from March
l3, 1S85.--OhiO IN the Var.