Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Loring na ɗan lokaci ya ɗauki umurnin Polk's III corps lokacin da Polk ya kusan yanke kashi biyu ta hanyar harbi da aka kashe a Pine Mountain a ranar 14 ga Yuni, 1864. Ya jagoranci rundunar a lokacin yakin Kennesaw Mountain amma ba da daɗewa ba aka maye gurbinsa a ranar 7 ga Yuli, 1864, Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart. Loring ya koma umurnin rundunar, yana fada a yakin Peachtree Creek, da kuma Ezra Church, inda aka ji masa rauni. Loring ya fita daga aiki har sai bayan faduwar Atlanta
Ka yi haƙuri. Bayan ya dawo ya umurci rundunarsa a cikin rundunar sojojin Stewart a yanzu da John Bell Hood ya umurce shi, yana ganin yakin a Franklin a ranar 30 ga Nuwamba, 1864, da Nashville a tsakiyar watan Disamba. A cikin shekarar da ta gabata na yakin, ragowar sojojin Hood da aka rushe sun koma gabas don shiga cikin Kamfen na Carolina, suna ganin aikin a yakin Bentonville kafin Johnston ya mika wuya a Durham, North Carolina wata daya daga baya.