Apparently, there has been one book on Fort Hindman/Arkansas Post published by Ed Bearss et al. in 1959; assume his 1959 article in the AHQ has most of the info/details in it..???

Here are the basic refs (courtesy of Google Advanced Scholar) fyi:

The Battle of the Post of Arkansas
EC Bearss, HK Smith, JH Atkinson - 1959 - Arkansas Historical Association

Bearss, Edwin C. “The Battle of the Post of Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 18 (Autumn 1959): 237–279.

Christ, Mark K. “‘Them dam’d gunboats’: A Union Soldier’s Letters from the Arkansas Post Expedition.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 66 (Winter 2007): 452–467.

Kiper, Richard L. “John Alexander McClernard and the Arkansas Post Campaign.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56 (Spring 1997): 56–79. Surovic, Arthur F. “Union Assault on Arkansas Post.” Military History 12 (March 1996): 34–40.

y.v.o.s.,

Kenneth Byrd