Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, has been responsible for maintaining and reporting data concerning militia strength.  During the Civil War these activities were intensified, particularly as they related to fulfillment of municipal recruitment quotas and determinations of entitlement to state aid and bounties.  This series consists of returns prepared by municipal officers in response to the governor’s executive order of May 13, 1863, requiring that returns be forwarded from each municipality; they were to serve as the basis for reimbursement of its payment of bounties to Massachusetts soldiers raised in response to the presidential levies of July and Aug. 1862, pursuant to St 1863, c 218.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality
Notes: Although the adjutant general had responsibility for militia pay records before, during, and after the Civil War, including this series, from Dec. 1864 (pursuant to General Order 51) such records were in the specific custody of the paymaster general until that office lapsed in l866
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