26th Infantry, chapter 34 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866)

              BATTLE   OF  CHANCELLORVILLE. 747
With the exception of Company G, which consisted in part of Americans, the Avhole regiment was composed of men of German birth or German parentage. Being ordered to report at Wash¬ ington, they left the State on the 6th of October, On their arriA^al, they Avere ordered to proceed to Fairfax Court House, to join the Eleventh Army Corps, uuder General Sigel, The regi¬ ment was assigned to the Second Brigade of the Third Division, It Avas immediately put upon duty, engaging in drill Avhenever opportunity offered. On the 2d of l^ovember, they marched to Gainesville, and were occupied iu the vicinity of this point, at different stations, until the 9th of December, Avhen the Eleventh Corps took up its line of march for Falmouth, opposite Fred¬ ericksburg, Avhere they arrived on the 14th, just as General Burnside AA^as AvithdraAving his forces, after his unsuccessful attack on the heights of Fredericksburg,
Operations for the winter having closed, the Eleventh Corps proceeded to Stafford Court House, Avhere they went into camp. The ill-fated "Mud Campaign," in January, 1863, routed the Eleventh Corps from their winter quarters. They joined the expedition, leaving the Twenty-sixth to guard the lines, which they did until relieved by the TAvelfth Corps, The Eleventh Corps soon after returned to Stafford Court House, where the regiment constructed a comfortable camp, and remained during the A\dnter months.
Ou the 5th of February, 1863, Major Horwitz resigned, and Captain Baetz, of Company F, Avas appointed Major,
Early in April, preparations for the summer campaign began, and on the 27th of April, the regiment, Avith the rest of the Eleventh Corps, broke camp, and at midnight, crossed the Rap¬ pahannock at Kelley's Ford, and on the 29th, crossed the Rapi- dan at Germania Ford, and by hard marching, reached Locust GroA'C, a fcAv miles west of Chancellorsville, on the 30th of April, The corps Avas put in position along the Fredericksburg Pike, facing south. The line of battle was along the road. The extreme right of the line Avas occupied by a brigade in position at an angle of about forty-five degrees, supported by three or four additional regiments, Avith a section of artillery. This Avas the extreme right of the line. The Twenty-sixth, in the Third Division, Avas about a quarter of a mile from the extreme right.