Editing Fort Sumter (section)

===Ownership===
Early in the nineteenth century, South Carolina had owned multiple forts, namely [[Fort Moultrie]], [[Castle Pinckney]], and [[Fort Johnson (South Carolina)|Fort Johnson]], but ceded them, along with sites for the future erection of forts, to the United States in 1805.<ref name=Crawford>{{Cite book
|title=The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860–1861
|url=https://archive.org/details/genesiscivilwar00crawgoog
|last=Crawford
|first=Samuel W.
|publisher=[[Charles L. Webster and Company]]
|year=1887
|oclc=1591687}}</ref>{{rp|2}} The forts were of questionable military value and costly to maintain, so when asked to cede them, the state complied.<ref name=Dezter/>{{rp|103}} This was not the last time that South Carolina would cede forts to the United States; on December 17, 1836, South Carolina officially ceded all "right, title and, claim" to the site of Fort Sumter to the United States.<ref name=Crawford/>{{rp|4}}