Freedom by the Sword - US Army Center Of Military History

Arkansas, Indian Territory, and Kansas, 1863–1865 257
moving through Arkansas, Union troops advanced into Texas overland through
Louisiana and by sea. 72
Regiments in Arkansas remained at their posts awaiting muster-out and discharge.
Most white soldiers saw home before the end of the year, as did the men
of the 60th, 79th, and 83d USCIs, free-state regiments from Iowa and Kansas.
Those from Arkansas, Mississippi, and Missouri who had enlisted later in the
war—men of the 54th, 56th, 57th, 66th, and 113th USCIs and a few companies
of the 2d USCA and 63d USCI—stayed on for twelve months and more to take
part in the difficult business of reviving the state’s economy and in the painful
postwar adjustment of social relations between Arkansans black and white.
72 Ibid., pt. 1, pp. 756–58, 1024–26, and pt. 2, pp. 97 (“since the rebellion”), 107 (“An army”);
NA M594, roll 211, 57th USCI.