forces and immediately began organizing a new Confederate Army in Arkansas, by vigorously enforcing the new Confederate Conscription Act. General Hindman also demanded that Governor Rector cease organizing State Troops and transfer all unit to the Confederate Army. This ultimately resulted in the three new regiments that Governor Rector had intended to be State Troops, being enrolled as new Confederate Regiments and numbered accordingly. These regiments would become Rector's 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment and Brook's 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. On July 5, 1862, Colonel Frank A. Rector was reported to be north of the Arkansas River, en route to Fayetteville, with some 400 men mounted, and not well armed. On 11 July 1862, Rector appointed Colonel of the 1st Regiment, Northwest Division, Trans-Mississippi Department. On the same day Captain James Georges was appointed Lieutenant Colonel and Capt James P King was appointed Major. The muster rolls of the Field and Staff state that the regiment was stationed at Camp Johnson from 11 July 1862 to 7 August 1862. On 17 July 1862, Capt. Green of the Union army reported intelligence that Col Rector had passed 15 miles east and south of Tahlequah on the 14th (July) en route for Fort Gibson to join Cooper in Indian Territory. On 26 July 1862, Colonel Rector sent a letter from Col John Griffith to Richmond, requesting that the balance of Rector's regiment be ordered to join Colonel Griffith on the east side of the Mississippi River where the 17th Arkansas was then serving. The next day, Colonel Carroll, commanding the Northwest Division, Trans-Mississippi Department, wrote to Major General Hindman and reported that Rector’s Regiment was not yet armed. For reasons that remain unclear, Colonel Rector stepped down as Colonel in early August 1862 and by 11 August 1862, Rector had filed his bond to begin service as the Brigade Quartermaster for Colonel Carroll's command, in the rank of Major. Lieutenant Colonel James George assumed command of the regiment following Colonel Rector's departure. Prairie Grove Campaign Sometime in early September 1862 the 35th Arkansas and 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiments moved to Elm Springs, northwest of Fayetteville which was a training camp designed for 5,000. Here the regiment continued to drill. On September 14, 1862, James P. King became colonel of the Regiment. King had served in Gratiot’s 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops as a 1st Lieutenant of the Crawford County “Frontier Guards”. During the