Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-12-17
General E. W. sssise Dead.

General Il. w. Noise died at his
home in Sumter on Monday evening,
December 8th, having reached his
list year. He was born in Charles
ton in 1882, his father being Mr..
Abraham Noise who was native of
the Island of Hayti, having moved
to Charleston in 1912, where he
studied law and practiced his profes-
sion as partner of the late r. w.
Shand for a number of years.
General Noise was self-made
man, having in his early youth only
his own natural ability and an in
domitable fund of energy to bank
on. Yet when the Confederate
war opened he organized a COM
pany of 12O men, SO of whom
he mounted at his own expense,
costing him $4,000. The company
was named after him, and afterward
became Company A of the Seventh
Confederate cavalry, Col. w. G..
Cl''borne commanding, of which
company Mr.. Noise was made cap
tain. In 1868 he was made major
of the Seventh regiment, and near
the close of the war to the command
of the regiment, though he never re-
ceived his commission as colonel.
He was in the army of Northern
Virginia, under General Robert E.
Lee, and participated in the battles
of Yellow Tavern, Brandy Station,
Gettysburg, Averysboro, in the
trenches at Petersburg, in the battle
of the Mine, and at Bentonville.
With 200 men he built the dams in
Hetch's Run, in Virginia, near
Petersburg, to protect Lees left
flank against Grant. He was also in
the fight at the Davis House. At
Gettysburg he received a slight
wound. He was on the Hampton
cattle raid, capturing 2,7O0 head of
beeves from Grant in Virginia and
in the attack at Kilpatrick's camp,
which was captured.
At the battle of Bentonville, on
the third day, the extreme left of the
Confederate line was attacked by q
solid column of Federal infantry.
which was met only by thin line of
dismounted Confederate cavalry.
This line was Instantly swept away,
which would have resulted in the
capture of Bentonville and the in
evitable loss of Gen. Joseph E. John
sons army, but at the critical mo-
ment Gen. Hampton rode up with
his couriers, 25 to 80 in number, and
immediately dispatched one to Gen.
Hardee, informing him of the situa-
tion. Hampton then dismounted
with his staff and manned battery
of artillery, which was used with
such effect upon the advancing
Federal line as to check it till Har-
dee's troops came up and drove back
the advancing force. In this intri-
cate and dangerous manoeuvre
Major Noise bore conspicuous part.
After the war he started life abso-
utely penniless and resumed the
practice of law at Sumter. He was
eminently successful, and in 1876,
when South Carolina was redeemed
from negro domination by Wade
Hampton, there was no man in the
State who contributed more to the
success Of that movement than Gen.
Edwin w. Noise. He was born
orator with the happy gift of the
reconteur and he freely placed both
of these talents at the service of the
Democratic party in that memorable
campaign.
He was nominated for the posi-
tion of Adjutant General on the
Hampton ticket with the distinct
understanding that if elected his
salary was to be disposed of for
charity. He was elected and again
reelected - 1878. To his military
genius ant ievotion to the institn.
ton the South Carolina MALTA
owed its thorough organization in
the early days of white supremacy.
Az Ine eHd OF nls second term Of
service General Noise declined re.
election and since that time has
been devoting his attention to the
practice of his profession. In 1854
General Noise was married to Miss
Esther Lyon, daughter of Georgia
Lyon, of Petersburg, Va, and to
them were born eleven children
Mrs. Noise survives her husband
with the following children Major
Marion Noise, of Sumter; Messrs.
Charles and Ed. Noise, of San Fran.
cisco; Mr.. Clifton Noise, of Sumter;
Mr.. Albert Noise, of Philadelphia !
Mrs. Ansley Davis, of New York
Mr.. Andrew Davis, of San Francisco
Mrs. A. Cohen, of Charleston Mrs.
Begin, Mrs. Solomons and Miss Jes
sic Noise, of Sumter.