Toole served as acting assistant quartermaster and commissary in Tucson from May 30, 1862, to January 9, 1863.

Toole transferred to Company C, 1st California Veteran Infantry Battalion at Las Cruces, New Mexico November 28, 1864.

On April 5, 1865, Toole was honorably discharged at Franklin in El Paso, Texas.

[1] On September 7, 1868, Toole was appointed adjutant general of the Territory of Arizona with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

On October 3, 1870, Governor Anson P. K. Safford appointed Toole to the Pima County Board of Supervisors to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of E. N. Fish.