The men of the Wisconsin 26th Infantry Volunteer and many of their family members left lasting messages of their lives during the American Civil War. Some battle scenes were the most graphic and moving testimonies. The solders spent moments away from the battles and wrote about their duties and their times of leisure. Some entries of interests, apart from the war, put an extra touch to the history they have created. These diaries give a full understanding of the war through the eyes of the Wisconsin German Immigrants who were there. These personal entries of these soldiers put together in a day to day history of the 26th Wisconsin Infantry.
Letters:
Major Henry Baetz
Captain Fredrick Winkler
1st Lieutenant Joseph Arnold – Confederate Prison Camp
Surgeon Franz Huebschmann
Orderly Karl Karsten
Sergeant Charles Wicksburg
Private Adam Munzenburger
Private Orin Buttles
Private Ernst Damkoehler
Private Heinrich Linsch
Private Martin Abbott
Captain Fredrick Winkler
1st Lieutenant Joseph Arnold – Confederate Prison Camp
Surgeon Franz Huebschmann
Orderly Karl Karsten
Sergeant Charles Wicksburg
Private Adam Munzenburger
Private Orin Buttles
Private Ernst Damkoehler
Private Heinrich Linsch
Private Martin Abbott
Diary:
Adjutant George Jones
Orderly Karl Karsten
Private Frederick Berstatte
Private Frank Schmeck
Private George Hoenig
Artilleryman Jenkin Lloyd Jones – Insights of the 11th Corps at Mission Ridge.
Elon Francis Brown – 2nd Wisconsin – Insights on the 26th Wisconsin Infantry Chancellorsville
Orderly Karl Karsten
Private Frederick Berstatte
Private Frank Schmeck
Private George Hoenig
Artilleryman Jenkin Lloyd Jones – Insights of the 11th Corps at Mission Ridge.
Elon Francis Brown – 2nd Wisconsin – Insights on the 26th Wisconsin Infantry Chancellorsville