He Battled the Klan in Arkansas and Later was a well-known U.S. Marshal

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UPHAM, Daniel Phillips (1832-1882) Republican politician, businessman, plantation owner, and Arkansas State Militia commander during Reconstruction. As leader of the state militia campaign against the Ku Klux Klan (1868-69) he led 1,000 black and white troops against Confederate veteran Colonel A.C. Pickett and his army of klansmen. He was later tried but not convicted of killing two Klansmen when the Democrats took authority back after Reconstruction.Document Signed “D.P. Upham” 2pp. folio, March 24, 1879, being a claim by Thomas P. Hughes “For 4 days’ services as posse comitatus, from March 18 to 21st 1879” and his employment of “HC Martin, U.S. Deputy Marshal...as one of his posse comitatus, to assit in executing the following capias writs, to-wit: U.S. vs. John Redding” who was captured in the Cherokee Nation. Signed by Henry C. Martin (1844-1922) and by Thomas Hughes with his “X” mark. Fine condition.

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