On the morning of the 26th, at a general staff meeting held at Goito, King Charles Albert of Sardinia ordered General De Sonnaz's third corps to march to nearby Volta Mantovana (abandoned by the retreating Piedmontese) and to either cover the Piedmontese retreat or frustrate the Austrian advance across the Mincio, made possible by the nearby Viscontean bridge connecting Valeggio sul Mincio to Borghetto.

Austrian General Konstantin D'Aspré's Second Army corps had similar orders to secure Volta Mantovana, and troops under his command reached the town shortly before the Piedmontese.

An Austrian brigade led by Major General Friedrich von und zu Liechtenstein occupied Volta and some of the morenic hills nearby around 6 pm on the 26th.

The Austrian account of Dr. Schneidawind also states that the Savoia reached the village and captured several homesteads, but reinforcements from the Kinsky infantry regiment and the Szluiner grenzregiment (The Slunj border troops) threw the Piedmontese back.

Austrian accounts counted 77 dead, 175 wounded, 202 missing or unaccounted for (with most of the casualties coming from the 2nd Kaiserjäger battalion and the Archduke Franz Carl infantry regiment).