Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, is responsible for coordinating information and directives both within the Military Establishment and between it and other jurisdictions.  General orders were the means by which the adjutant general communicated his directives to his command staff and, through them, to the balance of the militia organization.  In many instances directives were grounded in instructions received from the governor or the U.S. War Dept.  Special orders normally had the more limited purpose of communicating the issuance of commissions by the governor to members of the military staff.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically
Notes: While there are many multiples of individual orders, there are also many gaps in the annual run
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