Damaged wall

In 1861 Fort Sumter was held by the Union. The fort was 3 stories tall. Its five foot thick brick walls towered about 50 feet above the water line. The Union lost the fort to the Confederates on April 14, 1861. They held the fort until February 17, 1865. Between 1863 and 1865 the Union had bombarded the fort with over seven million pounds of metal...reducing the fort to almost a pile of rubble. What we saw today had been partially restored. It was used from 1876 to 1897 as a lighthouse station. More reconstruction with a Battery being added in 1898 for protection during the Spanish American War. Then in WWI a small garrison manned the guns in the battery. The fort was finally retired in 1948.