Marcus B. Toney (c. 1840 - November 1, 1929) was an American Confederate veteran, Klansman and Masonic leader who worked for the Tennessee Central Railroad.

[1] His father, a millwright, had planned to settle in St. Louis, but Mrs. Toney became ill and couldn't travel beyond Nashville.

None of Toney's siblings survived childhood, and when his father died early in 1852, the eleven-year-old was left alone in the world.

[2] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Toney served in the Confederate States Army, under generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

[1] In a review for the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Gary D. Joiner of Louisiana State University Shreveport acknowledged that the book sounded "offensive" to modern-day readers, but he suggested that Toney "was in the norm for his time and place.