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===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, 1860β1861 |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}}
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