LORING, WILLIAM WING An American soldier, born in North Carolina. He was early taken by his parents to Florida, and at the age of fourteen enlisted in a volunteer company which took part in the Seminole War, attaining the rank of lieutenant at the end of two years of active service. Later he studied for a time at Georgetown (D. C.) College, and then served as a volunteer in the war for Texan inde pendence. Having returned to Florida, he was a member of the Territorial Legislature from 1839 to 1842. At the outbreak of the Mexican War he became captain in a regiment of mounted rifles, and later served with distinction under both Gen eral Taylor and General Scott. Appointed major, he was assigned in 1849 to command the troops in the Department of Oregon, became a lieuten ant-colonel in 1851, and served against the In dians in the Rio Grande country until 1856. when he was promoted to be colonel. In 1857 58 he served under Albert Sidney Johnston at the time of the Mormon troubles in Utah. He then traveled in Europe for a year. made a study of Continental military systems, and on his re turn was appointed to command the Department of New Mexico. He was strongly opposed to the
secession movement, but was a believer in the doctrine of States' rights, and on the withdrawal of Florida from the Union he entered the Con federate service, in which he was at once appointed brigadier-general. He became a major-general in February. 1862; served with distinction in West Virginia, and as a corps commander in Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee: took part in the Vicksburg and Atlanta ea tnpai,tms. and in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, in 1864, where he was second in command to Gen. John B. Hood. Later lie served under Gen. Joseph E. .Johnston in the surrendering with him to Sherman in April. 1865. After sev eral years in the banking business in New York City, he accepted in 1869 a commission from Ismail- Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, to reorgan ize his army. He remained in Egypt for ten years, accomplished his task with great success, and returned to America in 1879 with the rank of general of division. lie published an account of his Egyptian service under the title of A Con federate Soldier in Egypt (New York.