In September 1864, the remnants of several Arkansas regiments captured at the Siege of Vicksburg or Port Hudson and later exchanged were consolidated in the Trans-Mississippi Department.

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

[4] On 31 December 1864, General Kirby Smith's report on the organization of his forces lists the regiment, under the command of Colonel H.G.P.

[5] On 22 January 1865, Major General Churchill was ordered to move his division to Minden, Louisiana, and occupy winter quarters.

Many of the Arkansas Cavalry units, which had largely been furloughed for the winter of 1864-1865 following Price's disastrous Missouri Expedition did formally surrender at Jacksonport, Wittsburg, and a few other locations.