Toone, younger brother of Edward H. Toone, enlisted on May 14, 1861 as a sergeant in the Boydton Cavalry, Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry. In February of 1862, he was granted a leave for the purpose of trying to recruit a company for the 14th VA Infantry, an attempt which appears to have been unsuccessful as he rejoined his company. In July and August, 1863, he was absent due to illness, and he was examined in September and granted a furlough due to dysentery and bowel problems. From October 3, 1863 through 1864, he was detailed as a clerk in Richmond, VA in General Elzey's office, and he was hospitalized in Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, VA from October 9-November 10, 1863.
After the war, he was a farmer in Chesterfield County, VA in 1870. Toone's widow, Harriet Sheppard Toone, listed on her application for a widow's pension that he died from "stomach trouble" in Richmond, VA on September 11, 1898.
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