LORING, William Wing, American sol dier: b. Wilmington, N. C., 4 Dec. 1818; d. 30 Dec. 1886. He entered the United States army as a private in a troop of volunteer cavalry and was active in the Florida War in 1835-42. He studied at Georgetown College and then vol unteered in the Texas struggle for independ ence. From 1839 to 1842 he was a member of the Florida Territorial legislature and in the latter year was admitted to the bar. During the war with Mexico he was distinguished for bravery at Contreras, Churubusco and Chapul tepec and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel. In 1849-51 he commanded the troops in the Department of Oregon and campaigned against the Indians in the Rio Grande region 1851-56. In 1857-58 he served tinder A. S. Johnston in Utah. Although opposed to seces sion be held State Right views and in May 1861 resigned his commission and became a brigadier-general in the Confederate army and later major-general. He served in West Vir ginia and as a corps commander in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee; was active in the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns and served as second in command to John B. Hood at Franklin and Nashville. He also served under Joseph E. Johnston in the Carolinas, and with him surrendered to Sherman in April 1865. For a few years after the close of the war he was a banker in New York, then went to Egypt in 1869 and was made a pasha and chief of staff in the army of the Khedive. He re
organized the Egyptian army with great suc cess, was successively commandant of Alex andria, chief of the coast defenses and general of division. In 1879 he returned to the United Stees and published a description of his Ori ental experiences in Confederate Soldier in Egypt' (1883).
lo'rIs - men - kof, Mikhail Tarielovitch Tainoff, COUNT, Rus sian soldier and statesman: h. Tiflis, Russia. 1 Jan. 1826; d. Nice, France, 22 Dec. 1888. He was of Armenian descent, entered the army in 1843, served in several campaigns in the Cau casus and became major-general in his 30th year and distinguished himself at the capture of Kars in 1854. He served in the Crimean War and was made lieutenant-general in 1863. In the Turco-Russian War of 1877 he won the victory of Aladja Dagh in October, following up which he took Kars in November and for his services in the campaign was made a count in 1878. He was recalled from Tiflis (where in charge of several districts he had intro duced liberal reforms) during the Nihilist menace in 1879, and in 1880 was appointed Minister of the Interior, in which post he be gan by introducing liberal measures, but the assassination of the Tsar (13 March 1881) was followed the adoption of a reactionary policy on the accession of Alexander III, his position became untenable and he resigned.