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Arkansans enthusiastically supported the War with Mexico in 1846 and many future leaders of the Arkansas Confederate forces gained valuable experience during the conflict.
Following the War with Mexico, the state's militia forces again fell into decline until the administration of Governor Elias Nelson Conway, just before the outbreak of the Civil War.
He served during the War with Mexico at Vera Cruz and Tabasco on board the USS Stromboli He resigned as a passed midshipman 10 May 1852 after his last mission as an assistant on John G. Barnard's survey of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.