| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Seminole War and Mexican War veteran, losing his arm in the latter war. Commissioned as a captain in the U.S. Army for the Mexican War; resigned his commission in March 1861. Commissioned as a colonel in the Confederate Army in March 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in May 1861 and major general in February 1862. Major campaigns and battles include the West Virginia campaign, the Vicksburg campaign, the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, and Nashville. Loring served in Egyptian Army after the war, and he engaged in several business ventures when he returned in 1879. He died in New York in December 1886 and is buried in St. Augustine, Florida. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 4. National Historical Society, 1991.
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