The transfer of men from the 26th Arkansas to Brown's Battery was made permanent "by order of Gen. Hindman" as of August 12, 1862.

[citation needed] The 27th Arkansas was initially assigned to Colonel Robert G. Shaver's 2nd Brigade of Daniel M. Frost's 3rd Division of Major General Thomas C. Hindman's 1st Corps of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi The other regiments in the brigade were the 27th, 38th, and Adams' Arkansas Infantry Regiments.

ON November 11, 1862, Col Shaler reported that his command was in no condition whatever to move against the enemy because his arms were composed of shot guns rifles and about 20 muskets.

[citation needed] The regiment remained in the Fort Smith area serving as the Provost Martial until the Confederates retreated to Van Buren following the Battle.

In April 1863, one soldier wrote to his wife that Col Shaler had replaced the regiment's confederate battle-flag with a Missouri flag.

He described the flag's "roman catholic" styling and stated that he and his comrades were outraged, and thought that most of the regiment would refuse to fight under the Missouri banner.

[citation needed] Tappan's Brigade was present at the Battle of Goodrich's Landing on June 29, 1863, where they helped force the capitulation of two companies of the 1st Arkansas Infantry, African Descent.

After General Price abandoned Little Rock on September 10, 1863, the 27th retreated down the Southwest Trail to Benton and on to the vicinity of Arkadelphia, while they spent the winter of 1863.

[citation needed] Upon the launch of the Union Army's Red River Campaign, seizing Alexandria, Louisiana and moving on Natchitoches and Shreveport, General Kirby Smith ordered Churchill's Arkansas Division, which had most of his infantry (including Tappan's and Gause's brigades), south to Shreveport, Louisiana, in early March, 1864 to assist in countering Union General Nathaniel Banks' advance along the Red River.

Churchill's division reached Keatchie, Louisiana, in time to support Richard Taylor's main force, that routed Banks' army in the Battle of Mansfield (Sabine Crossroads) on April 8, 1864.

I threw out three companies of skirmishers under Major Steele of Grinsted's regiment, and immediately ordered my line to advance rapidly as directed ... For an hour and a half we were as warmly engaged with the enemy as it has ever been my experience to witness on any battlefield.

This is evidenced by the fact that the enemy made little or no attempt to pursue our line; on the contrary, he fled toward Red river as soon as night came, leaving his dead to be buried and his wounded to be cared by us.

[22]Churchill's Division marched back north into Arkansas to deal with the other part of the Federal advance, General Frederick Steele's Camden Expedition.

The division arrived after a long forced march at Woodlawn, Arkansas, on April 26, where they rested overnight, then joined the pursuit of Steele's retreating army.

[1] Tappan's Brigade and the 27th Arkansas returned to the vicinity of Camden following Jenkins' Ferry, and saw no substantial combat for the remainder of the war.

[25] On 17 November 1864, a union spy reported that Tappan's Brigade and Churchill's Division was in the vicinity of Camden, in Ouachita County, Arkansas.

Absalom Langston of Company, writing home to his wife from Camden Arkansas on December the 18 1864 reported: Dear companion, it is with the greatest pleasure that I, this Sabbath morning, embrace the opportunity of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am well (and) hoping these few lines will come to hand , finds you enjoying the blessings of god's mercy.

I can't go home without deserting, and I declare Mary, that you are too high-minded a woman to want me to disgrace myself, and you, and my old father and mother.

I know you want me to come honorably as the veteran of a good army, and has proved to the world that he is a man who loved his country, and who was willing to offer himself a sacrifice for its rights.