Tuhi i te haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I muri noa iho i te Pakanga o Helena, ko te Major General Benjamin Prentiss, e whakahau ana i nga ope o te Uniana i Arkansas, i whakakapihia e te Major General Frederick Steele; i whakaingoatia tana ope ko te Army of Arkansas. Ko Steele, he rangatira mohio me te pukenga i whakawhiwhia ki a ia ano i raro i te whakahau a General William T. Sherman i runga i te Campaign Vicksburg, i tiimata tonu ki te hopu i te taone nui o te kawanatanga o Arkansas i Little Rock. I te neke ki te hauauru, ka peia e te ope a te Federal te aukati a te Confederate i te Pakanga o Bayou Fourche
(i etahi wa ka kiia ko te Pakanga o Little Rock), ka noho a Little Rock i te 10 o Mahuru 1863.