I found this today, thought it might be someone's ancestor. I am writing it excatly as it was written Easters(Estes) John Andrew Matthew Pvt. Co. G, 18th SC Inf. He was captured between Petersburg and Richmond, VA. May the 20th,1864. He served the last 9 months of the war in Elmira prison and was paroled March 24, 1865. He returned home to Gaffney Co. SC where he died at age 79 years. Born August 6, 1865, died February 18, 1919.