Fort Titus was a fortified log cabin with gun loopholes built into its walls to allow it to be defended from the inside.
At 2 a.m. on August 16 southern partisans, including Henry T. Titus, attacked the fortress home of Judge Wakefield, but they were unable to take it.
Titus had a force of at least twenty-one men, including thirteen German stonemasons from nearby Lecompton, Kansas, with him.
This cannon, named Old Sacramento, had changed hands between the northern and southern partisans three times prior to this battle.
The Camp Sacket commander, Maj. John Sedgwick, moved toward Fort Titus to stop the battle, but it was over before troops arrived.