January 13, 1915

Confederate colonel Robert Glenn Shaver died at Foreman (Little River County). Shaver organized and was colonel to the Seventh Arkansas Regiment, which became known as “Shaver’s Regiment” during the Civil War. After the war, his activities with the Arkansas Ku Klux Klan (KKK) led to charges of murder, arson, treason, and robbery being issued against him and leading him to flee the country for a few years.