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Camp Sackett was a United States military camp located
1.5 miles Southwest of Ft. Titus or about 3.5 miles
Southwest of Lecompton. The camp was a tent city named
for Captain Delos Sackett of the 1st Cavalry, Ft. Leavenworth.
As many as 500 troops were garrisoned there on a regular basis
throughout most of 1856 in an attempt to keep peace
between proslavery and free state militiamen. It was in
this camp that the seven so-called treason prisoners were
taken in the spring of 1856 and held until September of
that year. Prominent free state leaders imprisoned here
included Governor Charles Robinson, George Deitzler, Gaius
Jenkins, George W. Brown, and John Brown, Jr., oldest son
of the famous abolitionist.