Many members of the Home Guard (Texas State Troops or militia) in 1861 that rounded up deserters and draft dogers protected the area of Fannin, Collin, Grayson and Collin County were accused of being partisans by Union sympathsizers and members of the Union League and they were in-line to be arrested and possibly hanged by Federal authorities after the war. My great grandfather Joshua D. Coffee was among the many ex-Confederates who had difficulties with the Federal authorities after the war. In 1879, to avoid the strife in Fannin County he took his family to a homestead on the Brown - Coleman County line which was then on the west Texas frontier. Fortunately, he arrived there with his family five years after the Indian problem was over.