J. L. Buass is listed as a private on the muster roll of the Austin City Light Artillery Company that was organized 14 June 1861. The source for this list is The State Gazette, Austin, Saturday June 22, 1861. JL Buass and J Schneider were both privates in this company. I know that Jean Schneider was a unionist because he signed an anti secession petition found in the Bowers Collection at the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. I did not find Buass' name on these documents.

Schneider died in a wagon accident in 1862. Schneider's son, Jacob Peter, worked and lived with Buaas. Jacob Peter Schneider wrote: “During vacation I went to work again, living with J. L. Buaas for whom I worked. He gave me the run of his library, and insisted that I read ancient history and Greek mythology. I was a Catholic and the Greek mythology confused my young brain until I ran away from the place, although the family was very good to me.”