BIO: Thomas Francis MALONEY, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 259.
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  MALONEY, THOMAS FRANCIS, son of Daniel and Mary (Houran) Maloney, was 
born August 19, 1843, in county Tipperary, Ireland.  His parents 
emigrated to America in 1847, and settled at Harrisburg.  Thomas F. was 
educated in the public schools of Harrisburg, afterwards at St. 
Michael's Seminary, near Pittsburgh, at St. Vincent's College, at 
Latrobe, Pa. He learned the trade of a machinist with W. O. Hickok, at 
the Eagle Works, Harrisburg.  During the Rebellion he enlisted as a 
private in company A, One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh regiment, 
Pennsylvania volunteers, July 22, 1862; appointed corporal of the 
company July 26, 1862; promoted sergeant August 1, 1862; promoted first 
sergeant August 6, 1862, and to adjutant of the independent battalion 
November 4, 1862, and mustered out with the regiment May 8, 1863.  He 
was appointed conditionally by Governor Curtin second lieutenant and 
mustering officer United States volunteers August 4, 1861, and upon the 
organization of the Two Hundred and First regiment, Pennsylvania 
volunteers, was commissioned captain of company F, August 27, 1864, 
serving with the command of the Army of the Potomac until his muster 
out by reason of General Order No. 94, A. G. O. War Department series, 
June 21, 1865.  Upon the reorganization of the First City Zouaves of 
Harrisburg, Captain Maloney, in 1869, was elected first lieutenant, and 
December 16, 1870, commissioned captain of company A of the Zouave 
battalion.  When the National Guard of Pennsylvania was established the 
company became known as the City Grays of Harrisburg, and on the 
organization of the Eighth regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, was 
attached to that command and mustered in as company D.  He was re-
commissioned December 14, 1875, and December 16, 1880; was one of the 
senior members in the service, and repeatedly refused a field office, 
preferring to remain with his company, which has no superior in the 
National Guard.  On the first of February, 1883, he was appointed 
arsenal keeper of the State arsenal at Harrisburg.  Captain Maloney 
married, in 1863, Ellen, daughter of John Casey, of Harrisburg.  It may 
be stated in this connection that Captain Maloney was the author of a 
military manual on "Guard Duty" which is considered an authority on the 
subject.