No, the US Army didn't take Sumter illegally, you traitorous Confederate.
Named after General Thomas Sumter, Revolutionary War hero, Fort Sumter was built after the War of 1812, as one of a series of fortifications on the southern U.S. coast to protect the harbors. Construction began in 1829, [3] and the structure was still unfinished in 1861, when the Civil War began.
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Early in the nineteenth century, South Carolina had owned multiple forts, namely Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, and Fort Johnson, but ceded them, along with sites for the future erection of forts, to the United States in 1805. [7] The forts were of questionable military value and costly to maintain, so when asked to cede them, the state complied. [8] This was not the last time that South Carolina would cede forts 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. [9]
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