Destruction of the Cape Lookout (NC) Lighthouse-- Part 2:

They failed to bring the light house down, but did significant damage to it.  L.C. Harland's attempt destroyed the light house oil supply and damaged the iron stairs on the interior.  With iron unavailable during the war, the damaged sections of iron were replaced with wooden ones.

The Fresnel lenses from all over North Carolina were found at Raleigh in 1865.    The lenses were shipped back to their original manufacturers to be checked out and repaired.

In 1867, the temporary wooden stairs were replaced with iron ones and the original  first-order Frensel  lens was reinstalled.

In 1873, it was painted in its distinctive black and white diagonal, checkerboard, or diamond, pattern.

--Old B-Runner