Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tangohia e Loring te mana o te III o Polk i te wa i tapahia ai a Polk ki te rua e te pupuhi pupuhi me te mate i Pine Mountain i te Pipiri 14, 1864. I arahi ia i te ope i te Pakanga o Kennesaw Mountain engari kaore i roa ka whakakapihia ia i te Hurae 7, 1864, e Lieutenant General Alexander P. Stewart. I hoki a Loring ki te whakahau wehenga, i whawhai i te Pakanga o Peachtree Creek, i Ezra Church, i whara ai ia. Kāore a Loring i te mahi tae noa ki muri i te hinganga o
Ko Atlanta. I tana hokinga mai ka whakahau ia i tana wehenga i roto i te ope taua a Stewart i whakahauhia e John Bell Hood, i kite i te pakanga i Franklin i te Noema 30, 1864, me Nashville i te waenganui o Tihema. I te tau whakamutunga o te pakanga, ka hoki mai nga toenga o nga ope a Hood ki te rawhiti ki te whai waahi ki te Whakatairanga o Carolinas, i kite i te pakanga i Bentonville i mua i te tuku a Johnston i Durham, North Carolina i te marama i muri mai.