The 11th and 17th was surrendered at Port Hudson on July 9, 1863, and while the officers went to POW camp, the enlisted men were paroled. Most went back home to Arkansas, and the regiment pretty much ceased to exist as an organized unit at that time. Colonel Griffith was able to reassemble some of the troops to continue fighting in the Trans-Mississippi Department, but unit muster rolls after the fall of 1863, simply because the troops didn't get paid from that time onward.

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