William Wing Loring
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William Wing Loring was an American soldier, politician, and lawyer. His military career spanned fifty years and saw him serve in the armies of the United States, the Confederate States, and the Khedi
Loring Pasha as a general in the Khedivate of Egypt
Battle of Franklin
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The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for t
William Wing Loring
…until after the fall of Atlanta. Upon returning he commanded his division in Stewart's corps of army now commanded by John Bell Hood, seeing combat at Franklin on November 30, 1864, and Nashville in mid-December. In the last year of the war, the remnants of Hood's smashed forces returned east to participate…
Battle of Franklin, by Kurz and Allison (1891)
Kentucky-Northern Tennessee, 1864
Southern Tennessee-Alabama, 1864
View north from Hood's headquarters on Winstead Hill (engraving from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War)