A great example of militiamen enlisting in new volunteer units is Company A of Monroe's 6th Arkansas Cavalry. When you check the roster, over and over again you find men who were present for the muster of the 50th Arkansas Militia Regiment, in Prairie county, Arkansas, March 7, 1862; and then enlisted in Co. A, 6th Arkansas Cavalry, at Hickory Plains, Arkansas, May 9, 1862.