Editing Fort Sumter (section)

===After the war===
[[File:Detroit Photographic Company (0780).jpg|thumb|Fort Sumter, ca. 1900]]
When the Civil War ended, Fort Sumter was in ruins. The U.S. Army worked to restore it as a useful military installation. The damaged walls were re-leveled to a lower height and partially rebuilt. The third tier of gun emplacements was removed. Eleven of the original first-tier gun rooms were restored with 100-pounder [[Parrott rifle]]s.

From 1876 to 1897, Fort Sumter was used only as an unmanned lighthouse station. The start of the [[Spanish–American War]] prompted renewed interest in its military use and reconstruction commenced on the facilities that had further deteriorated over time. A new massive concrete blockhouse-style installation was built in 1898 inside the original walls, armed with two [[12-inch gun M1888|12-inch M1888 guns]], one on a [[disappearing carriage]]. Named "Battery Huger" in honor of Revolutionary War General [[Isaac Huger]], it never saw combat. This battery was deactivated in 1947, and in 1948 the fort became [[Fort Sumter National Monument]] under the control of the [[National Park Service]].<ref name = scdah/>

One hundred and forty-seven years after it was sent, a rolled up telegraphic message was found in a trunk belonging to Col. Alexander Ramsay Thompson of New York and eventually given to a museum in Charleston, S.C. The telegram was dated April 14, 1861 from the Governor of South Carolina to [[Gazaway Bugg Lamar]] in New York, reading in part:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131220230120/http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20110413/ARCHIVES/304139995 A telegram comes home – Post and Courier], Charleston, South Carolina</ref>

{{blockquote|Fort Sumter surrendered yesterday after we had set all on fire... F.W. Pickens}}

In 1966, the site was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web
| last = Nelson | first = Benjamin G. | title = Fort Sumter National Monument | work = National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory | date = October 10, 1973 | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710001/S10817710001.pdf | access-date = June 11, 2012}}</ref><ref name = scdah>{{Cite web | title = Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston County (Charleston Harbor and Sullivan's Island) | work = National Register Properties in South Carolina | publisher = South Carolina Department of Archives and History | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710001/index.htm | access-date = June 11, 2012}}</ref> The [[Civil War Trust]] (a division of the [[American Battlefield Trust]]) and its partners have acquired and preserved {{convert|0.23|acres|km2}} of historic land related to the battles at Fort Sumter.<ref>[https://www.battlefields.org/preserve/saved-land] [[American Battlefield Trust]] "Saved Land" webpage. Accessed May 24, 2018.</ref>