It would appear that General Marmaduke's troops began the raid farther west from camps in Randolph Co.Arkansas up to Doniphan,Mo. From the Chalk Bluff fight down the Crowley's Ridge Military Road through Skatterville,Gainsville(near present Paragould),Walcott,Jonesboro and over to Jacksonport reached about May 8-9. Actually Brookland is about 5-10 miles south of Paragould.

One of the reports of march from Chalk Bluff to below Gainsville:

"The road was a slightly elevated quagmire from which there was no turning off,surrounded by swirling,slushing floodwaters of unknown depth,which turned turned the rank vegetation of the swamp into fetid vegetable soup. Men and horses sank to their kneecaps in the sloughing,tundra-like humus of the road. Artillery wheels would not turn and the guns were half carried by men across one sucking mudhole after another..."

I do not know if any guns were captured on the raid or abandoned on the withdrawal.