Loomis, Mordant D

Mordant Loomis

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Quick Facts

Significance:

Company I, 13th Michigan Infantry

Date of Birth:

1840

Place of Death:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Date of Death:

December 31, 1862

Place of Burial:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Cemetery Name:

Stones River National Cemetery

Mordant D Loomis was born in approximately 1840. He lived in Saugatuck, Michigan in his adulthood. At the age of 21, Loomis enlisted with the Union Army on October 23, 1861, in Saugatuck, MI as a private. He later mustered in with the 13th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company I on January 17, 1862. 

The 13th Michigan Infantry Regiment was organized at Kalamazoo, Michigan. They mustered in in January 1862 and were immediately sent to Nashville, Tennessee. From there, they participated in the battle of Shiloh and in Nelson’s Crossroads. After Nelson’s Crossroads, they marched to Nashville, Tennessee where they remained from October 1862 –December 1862. On December 26th, however, they were ordered to march south to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. 

After four days of marching, they arrived in Murfreesboro and took a position just north of the Nashville Pike. It was there that they remained at the start of the battle of Stones River. The Confederate Army of Tennessee began their attacks on the Union’s right flank. As they pushed Union troops further north towards the Nashville Pike, the 13th Michigan rushed to a new position along Asbury Lane. 

At 10am, they made contact with Confederate troops and began to push them back south. After a three hour struggle, the 13th Michigan was forced into a retreat back towards the Nashville Pike. The regiment had suffered great casualties in this first day of battle. It was during this first day that Private Loomis lost is life at the Battle of Stones River. 

Mordant D Loomis is laid to rest in the Stones River National Cemetery in plot K-4340.