Postbellum Career
After spending a year in New York City awaiting orders, Sackett was sent to the Montana Territory on an inspection tour, and then went on to the Pacific Coast. He was then assigned as Inspector General of the Department of the Tennessee from November 1866 through to March 1867. He served in the same role in a variety of posts until 1881, when he returned to Washington as a brigadier general and Senior Inspector General of the Army, a post he held until his death in Washington at the age of 63 of gangrene.
He was buried in his native Cape Vincent, where he had built an impressive house in 1872.
Post # 268 of the Grand Army of the Republic in Cape Vincent was named for Delos B. Sackett.
Sackett's Well, a bleak watering hole in a remote desert west of Yuma, Arizona, provided the inspiration for name of the fictional Sackett family in author Louis L’Amour’s series of Western novels, The Sacketts.
Camp Sackett was a United States military camp located about 3.5 miles southwest of Lecompton, Kansas. It served as a temporary prison for free state advocates, including Governor Charles L. Robinson, during the Bleeding Kansas issue in 1856.
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