... warmer climate, he moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1847 or 1848, and in 1854-5 to Texas. The breaking out of the Civil War found us in Louisiana, about sixty miles north of New Orleans, where Judge. Hyer 's too outspoken Union sentiments made him a marked man by the Rebels. He had many friends, however, who aided him on several occasions when plots were laid against him. In the fall of 1862 we clos...