The adjournment of the General Assembly on October 2, 1864 ended political activity in Confederate Arkansas. A Unionist state government under Isaac Murphy had already been formed in Little Rock, and as the war drew to an end Governor Murphy appealed for reconciliation. In an address to the people in May 1865 Murphy proclaimed that the fighting was over and asked that the Confederates work with him to rebuild Arkansas.

Confederate Governor Harris Flanagin urged that citizens and returning soldiers band together to preserve the peace in the different communities, and sent Augustus H. Garland to Little Rock to negotiate with the Federal commander. When Union authorities refused to treat with or recognize any act of his government, Flanagin delivered the archives and went home to Arkadelphia. The Confederate government of Arkansas, like the Confederacy itself, did not surrender but simply ceased to exist.

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