Kammala jumla mai zuwa: 37th Arkansas, yanzu a karkashin umurnin Maj Thomas H. Blacknall, saboda kamawar Colonel Bell a yakin Helena, daga bisani ya yi aiki a cikin kare Little Rock a watan Satumba, 1863, tare da Brigade na Fagan. Ƙungiyar ta ci gaba a kan Little Rock ta yi tsayayya da yawancin ƙungiyoyin dakarun sojan doki na Janar Marmaduke da Walker. Rundunar sojojin soja na Confederate sun haƙa a gefen arewacin Kogin Arkansas. A cewar Kyaftin Ethan Allen Pinnell na 8th Missouri Infantry, "Ayyukanmu sun tashi daga kogin [Arkansas] mil biyu a kasa da birnin zuwa gabashin Crystal Hill, nisan mil 6. Gen'l Fagan's Brig. yana a gefen dama, Parson a gefen hagu na Fagan, Frost a tsakiya da McRea a hagu. " Sojojin Tarayyar sun kafa gadar da ke kusa da Bayou Fourche, kuma sun haye zuwa kudancin kudancin Arkansas River. Tare da ayyukansa a gefen arewacin kogin da ke yanzu, an tilasta Major General Price ya watsar da birnin a ranar 10 ga Satumba, bayan wani ɗan gajeren lokaci
alkawari a Bayou Fourche. Sojojin Price sun janye zuwa Rockport.