On 7.4.1863, at the battle of Helena, AK, he was captured by the Union army.  I have a copy of a letter written by a soldier from the Union Army describing the attack by the 12th Missouri Infantry.  I also found a copy of the battlemap.  The 12th Missouri Infantry attacked the position defended by Co. D, 33ed Missouri.   At the end of the battle, CLD Olive was placed on a boat with 500 other POWs and sent to Memphis.  I do not know which POW camp, but I am still looking.  He was still listed as a POW on 2.10.1864.

After the war, he was entitled to a pension.  Either he did not know this or did not want a pension.  In either case, there is no record of him ever receiving a pension.  [All of the above is based on information that I dug out of the Archives in Washington DC].  For more information on the history of his unit, check out "History of the Ninth Missouri Infantry, C.S.A., and the Twelfth Missouri Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.," by Jerry Ponder. Published in 1996 by Ponder Books, Doniphan, Missouri. [I have a copy of this book].  This book is a brief history of these two Missouri Confederate Regiments with complete rosters of both regiments. These units were often confused during and after the war by clerks reconstructing the war for the Official Records. Fighting as part of Parson's Division, the 9th and 12th Missouri fought in practically every engagement in Arkansas and Louisiana. Muster rolls, roster, maps, and references are included in the 115 pages.

After the war he supposedly wrote a manuscript that was critical of the US government.  Because of the criticism, it is reputed that Lonnie, his third wife, destroyed the document at Charles death.  After the war, I believe that he settled in Corning, AR.  (This is where his son is buried.)

He referred to himself as the 'crooked leg Devil'.