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Well, sort of. Colonel Witt gathered quite a few of the exchanged Port Hudson prisoners back in Arkansas, along with a large number of new recruits, and reconstituted his old regiment as a mounted infantry outfit. Officially, it was still the 10th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted), but it was usually referred to as the 10th Arkansas Cavalry, or simply Witt's Arkansas Cavalry. The companies were all reorganized and redesignated.

In this new incarnation, Witt's regiment was very active in harassing Union supply trains and forage details, and fighting bushwhackers and guerrillas. The regiment often split into small detachments -- company-size or smaller -- to conduct its operations. Their encounters with the bands of bushwhackers that plagued north central Arkansas were often very short, brutal actions, with no prisoners taken by either side.

Witt's 10th Arkansas served to the end of the war, finally laying down their arms at Jacksonport on June 5, 1865.

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