[6] In 1822, when Charles was just two years old, his mother and older brother Lewis were killed during a hurricane on Sullivan's Island.

[9] He resigned his commission on January 29, 1861, following South Carolina's secession and was ordered to the command of the CSS Huntress, side-wheel steamer, in Savannah.

[15] After John Newland Maffitt became ill at Brest, France, Morris took over in January 1864 as commander of the CSS Florida.

[9] As commander, he captured Electric Spark, Harriet Stevens, Golconda, Margaret Y. Davis, and USS Mondamin along the coast of the United States.

Morris then crossed the ocean to Tenerife in the Canary Islands before cruising back to Brazil capturing the B.X.

Hoxie, Cairaissanne, David Lapsey, USS Estella, George Latimer, Southern Rights, Greenland, Windward, William C. Clark, and Zelinda.

Morris and most of his crew were ashore when his ship was boarded in the middle of the night while at anchor in neutral waters.

[16] During the remainder of the American Civil War, he served abroad as an agent of the Confederate States government.

After the funeral, his body was sent to New York where was laid to rest in the family vault at St. Ann's Church in Morrisania.