 by way of Monroe, La., but 5,000 of those 18,000 were captured on the steamer "Fair Play" by Union forces, and 2,500 arms were redirected to Major-General Richard Taylor's army in Louisiana.Only 11,000 arms made it to Pine Bluff.These weapons had come from the arsenal of eastern Confederate states that had been returned to the state arsenals as the Confederates had re-equipped themselves with the better captured Union arms.