Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, National Archives Microfilm Publication No. 323, Rolls 388, 422, 426; Johann F. Leyendecker to General William R. Boggs, November 28, 1864, Leyendecker Family Papers (Ms. 37), Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus. General Boggs dismissed Leyendecker's proposal on December 1, 1864 with a terse, "I have no time to attend to such experiments."