Estes enlisted as a private in Co. K of the 38th VA infantry on June 2, 1861. In the late summer and fall of 1861, he was at home with a fever on furlough. He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on May 31, 1862 and was hospitalized at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, VA with a fever from June 3 through June 9, 1862.. In the summer and fall of 1862, he was assigned to enroll conscripts into the army. He was promoted to sergeant on August 31, 1862 and to 2nd lieutenant on December 18, 1864.
He returned home to Pittsylvania County after the war and is listed as a "trader" in the 1870 census. By 1880 he had moved to Henry County, VA where took up farming. Estes died on December 23, 1909 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Martinsville, VA
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