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Charles was born on September 20, 1811 in the Parish of Saint James, Santee, South Carolina, United States. He was a son of Charles John Steedman and Mary (Blake) Steedman. His grandfather, James Steedman, had emigrated from Scotland to America before the Revolution.
Entering the navy as a midshipman, April 1, 1828, he was promoted to the grade of passed midshipman, January 14, 1834, and later, through successive grades, to that of rear-admiral, May 25, 1871. His early service, mainly in the West Indies, was without special incident.
In 1835 he was ordered to the Constitution, and in her joined the Mediterranean Squadron, where he remained until June 1838. He spent the next four years largely in West Indian duty.
In 1843 he was ordered to duty on the coast survey brig Washington. The next year he joined the corvette St. Mary's, and in her participated in the naval operations on the Gulf coast during the Mexican War, commanding the St. Mary's launch in the capture of the Mexican schooner Pueblana inside Tampico bar, November 14, 1846. He also commanded an eight-inch gun of a naval shore battery in the bombardment of Vera Cruz and San Juan d'Ulloa, March 24-27, 1847.
After two years at the Naval Observatory, in 1850 he was again ordered to the Mediterranean Squadron. In the Paraguay expedition under William Branford Shubrick he commanded the brig Dolphin, returning to the United States in December 1860. Though he was a South Carolinian, he remained loyal to the Union when the Civil War began.
He was at once ordered to duty in Chesapeake Bay, keeping communications open and transporting troops from Havre de Grace to Annapolis while the railroad bridges between Baltimore, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were being repaired.
Thence he was ordered to duty with Andrew Hull Foote on the Mississippi, but was soon recalled and given command of the Bienville, in which he participated in the Port Royal expedition of November 1861, his vessel leading the second attacking column.
After the battle he blockaded the Georgia coast, participating in the capture of all the ports south of Savannah. In June 1862 he was transferred to the steamer Paul Jones, and with her silenced the batteries on St. John's Bluff, Florida.
On April 13, 1863, he was transferred to the Powhatan, doing blockade duty off Charleston, South Carolina, until September 1863, when he towed the captured ram Atlanta to Philadelphia. He was at once given command of the Ticonderoga and ordered to cruise against Confederate commerce raiders, particularly the Florida.
After an unsuccessful search for this vessel off the Brazilian coast, he returned to Philadelphia in October 1864 in his ship with broken-down engines. In command of the same ship he took part in both attacks on Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
In November 1865, after extensive repairs to the Ticonderoga, he joined the European Squadron of Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, returning home in the Colorado in September 1867.
After an extended tour of Egypt, Palestine, and Europe following his retirement, he settled in Washington, where he spent his declining years.
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His courtly bearing and polished manner were never disturbed amid the excitement of battle.
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A comrade said of him, "He was as cool under fire as on parade. "
He married Sarah Bishop of Philadelphia on February 7, 1843, and had two sons and four daughters.
