252 The company went to Fort Smith and joined the Fourth Akansas Regiment and participated in all the battles with this regiment and was one of the companies of the Fourth Regiment when that regiment was so reduced that on reorganization it was formed into a single company.(134) They surrendered with General Johnston in North Carolina, and few of the Calhound Invincibles returned. Those living in 1890 were E. A. Hanna, J.W. Raiford, Thomas Holmes, Tom Weisinger, J. B. Dunn, H. C. Black, J. P. Hays, T. C. Bass, and J. T. O. Tibbits. O. H. P. Black had died several years before.(135). O.H. P. Black married Mary Kearney Hunt in 1863 and immediately after the war went to Texas. Their children were Araminta Black, Oliver Hazard Perry Black, Jr., Lee Jackson Black, Beulah Bearin Black, Nettie Lula Black, Nellie Lula Black, Robert Arthur Black, Elbert Milton Black and Vessie Lillian Black. All of these children were reared in Texas and perhaps many descendants are in Texas now. The Blacks were a prolific familty, but the name of the orginal settlers has almost disappeared in Union County. The Blacks and their associates carved a civilization from a wilderness in Union County. This large Scotch-Irish family with all the other pioneer families, typical of those settling in the American Colonies left us a heritage that we, who enjoy our country today, should never forget. __________________ 134. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, p. 784. 135. Biographical and Historical memirs of Southern Arkansas, p. 783.               Contents   Words   Study Questions   Related Sites