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Rh at the evacuation of Manassas, and, as a convalescent, in June, 1862, he took part in the battles of Seven Pines and Gaines' Mill, receiving a wound in the left arm at the former battle. His physical condition, however, would not permit of continued service in the field and he was assigned to duty in the laboratory at Richmond, where he remained until August following, when he received an honorable discharge on account of physical disability. In the following October, however, he re-enlisted, and entered the ordnance department under Colonel Dimmock, with whom he remained at Richmond until the fall of 1863, when Dr. Maloney received severe injuries in the explosion of the laboratory, which unfitted him for further service. Still anxious to be of some utility in the cause, he refused a discharge and asked for some detailed duty. As a result of this application he made his way to Washington and served during the remainder of the war in collecting information for the Confederate government. It was dangerous employment, but his tact and shrewdness availed to preserve him from arrest until the night following the assassination of President Lincoln, when he was seized as a suspect but released on the next day. After the establishment of peace he took up the study of law at Washington, and, being admitted to practice in 1876, followed that profession with success until 1883. Then feeling a greater natural inclination toward the pursuit of scientific studies, he devoted himself to the study of applied physics, and, after taking a course of chemistry at Georgetown university, entered the medical department of the university in 1886. He continued his professional studies, in 1888, at the university of Maryland, and, in 1890, in Columbia university, where he was graduated in 1891. After that date he continued in the practice of medicine at Washington and attained distinction as a well-grounded and skillful practitioner. Dr. Maloney was an active member of the Washington camp of United Confederate Veterans, of which he was surgeon in 1894 and commander in the year 1895.

Michael Maloney, who has been a resident of the national capital during the past ten years, and, during the war was a gallant soldier of the army of Northern Virginia, serving during the entire war, was born in Ireland in 1832. When a boy of thirteen years he came to America and made his home in Allegheny county, Va., where he found employment in agricultural pursuits during the subsequent fifteen years. When the State, of which he had become a loyal and devoted citizen, determined to sever her connection with the Federal government, he promptly enlisted for her military defense and was enrolled as a private in the Twenty-seventh Virginia infantry. His valor and meritorious conduct were rewarded by promotion to the rank of orderly-sergeant during his subsequent career in the campaigns and battles of the army. He took part in the battles of Harper's Ferry, First Manassas, Kernstown, Port Republic, Cedar Creek and the Wilderness, among others of less importance. After the battles of the Wilderness, he was detailed for special duty and ordered to Babb county, Va., where he was employed in the manufacture of saltpeter for the army, until the close of the military operations. During his service he escaped without further injury than a slight wound received at Kernstown. Owing to this occupation at the time of the surrender of the army he was not paroled