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Samuel Tolles
Birth: 1817
Death: 10-10-1864
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Mentioned in 18641011WSJ_WHS1 - "An officer from the front just reports that Col Tolles Genl Sheridans chief Q M was mortally wounded by guerrillas near Middletown yesterday"
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Biography:
Mentioned in 18641011WSJ_WHS1 - "An officer from the front just reports that Col Tolles Genl Sheridans chief Q M was mortally wounded by guerrillas near Middletown yesterday"
Biography:
"Lieutenant-Colonel Tolles, my chief quartermaster, and Asst. Surg. Emil Ohlenschalger, medical inspector on my staff, were both mortally wounded by guerrillas to-day on their way to join me from Winchester; they were ambuscaded"
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Book or Book Chapter
Book or Monograph Title:
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union
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Book or Book Chapter
Book or Monograph Title:
The History of the Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers in the War...
Publisher Location:
New Haven, Conn.
Publisher Name:
The price, Lee & Adkins Co.
Year:
1893
Citation Notes:
https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q6D1iE6hH4C&pg=PA337&lpg=PA337&dq=colonel+samuel+tolles+the+history+of+the+fifteenth+connecticut&source=bl&ots=jNt84lCxML&sig=1QktXMxiREqWlCDBWXBtufcm4W8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio567S56LLAhUCED4KHRZfDhkQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=colonel%20samuel%20tolles%20the%20history%20of%20the%20fifteenth%20connecticut&f=false
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https://books.google.com/books?id=HBpEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=Oct+11,+1864+guerilla+middletown&source=bl&ots=oOPrH-Vyhn&sig=Cna4TlcNK_ajdN_XZcTXnV827r4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfu5i2v6LLAhWJyj4KHRZuABwQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q&f=false
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union
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Citation Notes:
Was ambushed by guerrillas - know the day of the ambush but not sure if he died immediately or in the following days after the attack