Kammala wannan jumla: Ba da daɗewa ba bayan yakin Helena, Manjo Janar Benjamin Prentiss, wanda ke jagorantar dakarun 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. Motsawa yamma, sojojin Tarayya sun watsar da juriya na Confederate a
Yaƙin Bayou Fourche (wani lokacin ana kiransa Yaƙin Little Rock), kuma ya mamaye Little Rock a ranar 10 ga Satumba, 1863.