Morris, who was in the VMI class of 1851, attended R-MC for a year in 1851-52 and then went to the University of Virginia for a year in 1852. He practiced law in Albemarle County, VA, although an article in the Virginia Law Register on the Albemarle Bar states about Morris and another colleague that "neither of these gentlemen ever did much practice in Albemarle or elsewhere and can hardly be counted as active practitioners." Morris was a pioneer member of the Albemarle Hunting Club in 1856. On September 10, 1862 he was commissioned 1st lieutenant in Co. G of the 46th VA Infantry. He submitted a letter of resignation on April 1, 1863 citing ill health and had been absent for the previous 4 months due to chronic nephritis and rheumatism.
After the war, he was a farmer in Washington County Missisippi in the 1870 and 1880 censuses. By 1900, he was living in Clearwater, FL.He died on May 24, 1923 in Clearwater and is buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Charlottesville, VA.
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