detachment of approximately 200 men from the 24th Arkansas and Crawford's Battalion returned to Camp White Sulphur Springs, near Pine Bluff, where they and other members of the 24th, Dawson's 19th (including Colonel Dawson himself) and Crawford's battalion, who happened to be in the hospitals at Sulphur Springs, St Charles and Deval's Bluff at the time of the Battle of Arkansas Post, were organized into a "holding regiment" under Colonel Charles Dawson's command. The original thought was that the men would remain in this holding regiment until the captured portions of these commands were exchanged and returned to Arkansas to reform these regiments. General U. S. Grant however didn't want those men captured at Arkansas Post to be exchanged back in the Mississippi River theater of operations to oppose his operations against Vicksburg, Hence they were exchanged at City Point, Virginia instead of the normal exchange point for Trans-Mississippi prisoners at Vicksburg. This left portions of the regiments in Arkansas, and portions in Virginia. Those elements of the 19th, 24th and Crawford's Arkansas Infantry Battalion which not present to surrender with the garrison of Arkansas Post, were eventually consolidated in a regiment under command of Colonel Charles L. Dawson, originally from the 19th Arkansas, and assisted by Lieutenant Colonel William R. Hardy and Major Francis H. Wood of the 24th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. The companies of the regiment were reorganized from the remnants of the 19th and 24th Arkansas Infantry Regiments and Crawford's Battalion in the following manner: Company A – composed of Companies A & B, Crawford's Battalion. Company B – composed of Companies B & E, 24th Arkansas Infantry. Company C – composed of Companies D, 24th Arkansas Infantry. Company D – composed of Companies F, 24th Arkansas Infantry. Company E – composed of Companies H, 24th Arkansas Infantry. Company F – composed of Companies C & G, 24th Arkansas Infantry. Company G – composed of Companies B & C, 19th Arkansas Infantry. Company H – composed of Companies A & K, 24th Arkansas Infantry. Company I – composed of Companies F, G & I, 19th Arkansas Infantry. Company K – composed of Companies D, E & K, 19th Arkansas Infantry. Captain Torbett's Company, composed of Companies A & H, 19th Arkansas Infantry; and Co. I, 24th Arkansas Infantry. Service Little Rock Campaign The Consolidated Regiment remained at White Sulphur Springs until late July 1863 training and as