American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

8 x 6 1/16 in. oval albumen photograph on cardstock mount (some spotting to image, with more significant spotting and discoloration to mount). Pencil inscriptions to mount recto identifying group and subjects, including "1862 Commander and staff of 67th Regt Ills Vols Infantry 1862" above and "Summer 1862 at Chicago / Chaplain of Regt / Q. Master [?] Ills vols [indecipherable] / Colonel Hough / Adjutant Hale / Major Wm H Haskell / 1862" below. 

Daniel T. Hale, William M. Haskell, and Rosell M. Housh (also spelled Hough) were commissioned into Field & Staff of the 67th Illinois Infantry Regiment on 13 June 1862. Colonel Hough is likely the subject seated at center, and Major Haskell is likely seated to the far right. 

An urgent call to state governors to send available volunteer and militia forces to Washington in response to threats of a great enemy advance prompted the organization of the 67th, 68th, 69th, 70th, and 71st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiments, whose men mustered into the United States Army for three months' service. The 67th was organized at Camp Douglas in Chicago where it remained on guard duty for the duration of its service term.