 Officers who did not choose to stand for re-election were also offered a discharge.The reorganization was accomplished among all the Arkansas regiments in and around Corinth, Mississippi, in May 1862.During its reorganization, a number of senior officers from the Arkansas regiments east of the Mississippi, such as Colonels James Fleming Fagan, Robert G. Shaver, and Alexander Travis Hawthorn resigned their original commands and returned to Arkansas and assisted Hindman in organizing new units in the summer of 1862.