Tioga County PA Archives Obituaries.....Toles, Alfred  December 14, 1865
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 The agitator.: (Wellsborough, Tioga County, Pa.): January 18, 1865
At the 10th Army Corps Hospital, near Jones' Landing, Virginia, on the 14th ult., of
typhoid fever, Alfred Toles, of Co. F, 11th Pa. Cavalry, aged 19 years, 3 months and
3 days. His remains were brought home and interred in the Wellsboro Cemetery January
8, 1865. Mr. Toles was a native of Chatham township, in this county. He enlisted in
September last, as have hundreds of thousands, from a pure sense of duty. He only
desired to strengthen the hands of his friends in the army. He was immediately sent
to the front, placed upon picket duty, and before he had been one month in the
service, his Regiment charged up to the very gates of Richmond and had an
opportunity of seeing the Capital of Rebeldom. Upon this occasion, he had his horse
shot under him. But he was not permitted to serve out his term of service. During
the latter days of November he was seized with that terrible disease the typhoid
fever, and died after a short, but severe illness…

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