However,even if General Walker's Division had left Pine Bluff a day earlier on the morning of January 10 for the Post,his division could have only been at South Bend and the ferry on the early evening of January 11 and still in no position to directly support General Churchill.A thousand or two of Parson's cavalry coming down from the north would not have been of serious assistance unless to cover a withdrawal.
Surely General Holmes would have seen all this on his map at Little Rock.General Holmes telegram to General Churchill on the night of January 10,"Hold until relieved or Dead" seems quite unrealistic.
Appears to me the Arkansas Post Garrison in early 63 was way out on an unsupported limb.
MWT