Adam Gale Malloy

Malloy was born on September 10, 1830, in County Tipperary, Ireland, then under the rule of the United Kingdom. He emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was still an infant. When he was 14, his father volunteered for service with the 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment, and Adam joined the regiment as a fifer (musician). ==Civil War service==

In the years leading up to the American Civil War, Malloy became active with the Wisconsin militia and helped to drill Sauk County volunteers in Baraboo, Wisconsin. At the outbreak of the war, Malloy's trainees became part of the "Madison Guards" militia company which joined the 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Malloy remained in Baraboo to organize a full company from the surrounding area and was elected captain of that company. Malloy led his company to Camp Randall, in Madison, where they were enrolled as Company A of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Irish brigade (Spring 1862Winter 1864) That December, Malloy was promoted to lieutenant colonel for the newly organized 17th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment—the "Irish Brigade". The 17th Wisconsin was organized at Camp Randall and mustered into service in March 1862. With the 17th Wisconsin, Malloy moved to the western theater of the war and participated in the sieges of Corinth and Vicksburg in Mississippi. Before Vicksburg, in November 1862, Malloy was promoted to colonel of the regiment, following the resignation of Colonel John L. Doran. Malloy and the 17th Wisconsin re-enlisted as a veteran regiment in January 1864, earning a month-long furlough in Wisconsin. Upon their return, they joined General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta campaign. They were attached to XVII Army Corps at Huntsville, Alabama, and were organized into the 3rd brigade of the 3rd division of the corps. Malloy was placed in command of the brigade, which also included a battalion of men detached from the 14th Wisconsin, 81st Illinois, and 95th Illinois infantry regiments. Colonel Malloy's own account of the battle can be found in the Official War Records, Series 1, Volume 47, Part 1, item 266. Final months (Summer 1865) After the reunion with Sherman's army, Malloy resumed command of the 17th Wisconsin Infantry for the remaining days of the war. They marched to Raleigh, North Carolina, and were camped there when they received word of the surrenders of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee, effectively ending the war. ==Postbellum career==

Malloy was mustered out of the volunteers on July 19, 1865. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Malloy for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866. In February 1866, Malloy joined the regular army and was appointed a 1st lieutenant with the 17th U.S. Infantry Regiment. He was unassigned as of August 12, 1869. In recognition for his Civil War service, he was brevetted to captain (for Vicksburg), to major (for Kennesaw Mountain), to lieutenant colonel (for Atlanta), and to colonel (for Nashville). Malloy resigned from the Army in August 1870, and accepted an appointment from the state government of Texas to aid in Reconstruction. In 1874, he received an appointment from President Ulysses S. Grant as collector of internal revenue for the 4th district of Texas, and, in 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him collector of customs for the port of Galveston, Texas. He was subsequently re-appointed to this role by President Chester A. Arthur. He was a Texas delegate to the Republican national conventions in 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884, and 1892, was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1880 to 1884, and was the Republican nominee for United States House of Representatives in Texas's 13th congressional district in 1892. He moved to Los Angeles around 1901, and from there moved to San Diego, and then Escondido, California, where he died on November 10, 1911. He is buried in San Marcos, California. ==See also==