Accordingly, in the last week of December 1862, Confederate forces operating out of the Post attacked and captured the unarmed Union steamer Blue Wing at Cypress Bend on the Mississippi, eight miles below the town of Napoleon. The Blue Wing, carrying ordnance and supplies and towing two barges of coal, was destined for the Federal fleet downriver at Vicksburg. The victorious Rebels towed the ship and its supplies up the Arkansas River to the recently completed Fort Hindman. This Confederate triumph would turn out to be the beginning of the end for the Post of Arkansas.
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“Until the opening of a military academy . . . cadets were to be attached to companies in any branch of the Army as supernumerary officers. No military academy was established . . .”
The Confederacy, A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America, National Archives, p. 149

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Article IV Appointment and Promotion of Commissioned Officer

21. Cadets appointed under Confederate law, shall be assigned to such duties, governed by exigencies of the service, as will best promote their military experience and improvement, until a military school shall be established by the Government for their instruction.
Regulations for the Army of the Government States, 1863, Republished by The National Historical Society, Harrisburg, PA 1980