April 18, 1831

Confederate colonel Robert Glenn Shaver was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, exactly on the line between Virginia and Tennessee. Robert Shaver organized and was colonel to the Seventh Arkansas Regiment that became known as “Shaver’s Regiment.” After the war, Shaver emerged as a prominent leader of the Ku Klux Klan and had to flee to British Honduras (now Belize) after his Klan activities got him in trouble with the state government.