Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Rukunin Sojojin Missouri na 7 sun yi tafiya zuwa Flat Creek a watan Fabrairun 1863. Daga nan suka ƙaura zuwa Rolla, Missouri. Unitungiyar ta shiga cikin ayyukan da aka yi wa Marmaduke na kai hari ga Cape Girardeau daga 17 ga Afrilu zuwa 2 ga Mayu. Rundunar ta kasance a Pilot Knob har zuwa Yuli. An sanya rukunin zuwa Brigade na 1, Rukunin Sojan Ruwa na 1, Gundumar Kudu maso Gabashin Missouri, Ma'aikatar Missouri a watan Yuli-Agusta kuma yana Brownsville, Arkansas a ranar 25 ga Yuli. An sanya wannan rundunar a cikin Brigade na 1, 1st Cavalry Division, Arkansas Expedition, daga Satumba 1863 zuwa Janairu 1864. A lokacin da Frederick Steele ya yi tafiya zuwa Little Rock, Arkansas, 7th Missouri Cavalry ya kasance wani ɓangare na Lewis Merrill na 1st Brigade a cikin John Wynn Davidson na 1st Cavalry Division. Sauran raka'a a cikin brigade sune 2nd Missouri da 8th Missouri Cavalry Regiments. Akwai rikice-rikice a Grand Prairie a ranar 17 ga Agusta, Brownsville a ranar 25 ga Agusta, da Ashley's Mills a ranar 7 ga Satumba. Ƙarshen wannan tafiya shi ne yakin Bayou Fourche
a ranar 10 ga Satumba 1863 lokacin da Steele ya motsa sojojinsa a arewacin kogin Arkansas yayin da sojojin dawakai 6,000 na Davidson suka tsallaka zuwa kudancin kudancin. Tare da brigade na John Montgomery Glover a hannun dama da brigade na Merrill a hagu, mahayan dawakai na Davidson sun kori Marmaduke's cavalry kuma suka tilasta wa 'yan takarar Sterling Price su kwashe Little Rock.