Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ba da daɗewa ba bayan Yaƙin Helena, Manjo Janar Benjamin Prentiss, wanda ke jagorantar sojojin Tarayyar a Arkansas, ya maye gurbinsa da Manjo Janar Frederick Steele; an sake sunan rundunarsa zuwa Sojojin Arkansas. Steele, wani jami'i mai kwarewa da kwarewa wanda ya ba da kansa sosai a karkashin Janar William T. Sherman a kan Vicksburg Campaign, nan da nan ya fara kama babban birnin jihar Arkansas a Little Rock. Da yake motsawa zuwa yamma, sojojin Tarayya sun kori 'yan adawa a yakin Bayou Fourche
(wani lokacin ana kiransa Yakin Little Rock), kuma ya mamaye Little Rock a ranar 10 ga Satumba 1863.