Scope and Content: Rolls were created to provide an abstract of the Civil War service record of soldiers in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia units, those that served shorter terms, including three months, nine months, and one hundred days. The rolls are arranged by regiment and then company, with officers listed first and then privates alphabetically by first letter of surname. –Information includes name, rank, occupation, age, marital status, residence, town credited to, date enlisted, date mustered, reenlistment date, date mustered out. Sometimes type of roll (descriptive, muster, island, misc., elective, provost marshal, re-enlist, muster-out) is given (with roll no.) where information was presumably gathered. The series: Descriptive lists of recruits for Massachusetts Volunteers, 1863-1864 ((M-Ar)477X), Muster rolls of Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)441X), and Muster-out rolls of Massachusetts Volunteers, 1864-1866 ((M-Ar)727X) are the most frequently cited. A remarks field contains information on the death, desertion, discharge or transfer of the soldier, including transfer to the Navy or service in later regiments. These annotations continued into the early twentieth century as new information continued to be gathered from the War Dept. and other sources for confirming service records for pension claims, and for publication of:  Massachusetts soldiers, sailors, and marines in the Civil War (1931-1937). –For an account of three-year soldiers see: Rolls of Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)443X). For similar records of sailors, see: Descriptive lists of Massachusetts Volunteers in the U.S. Navy, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)458X). –A glued-in sheet containing resolutions of the veterans of the 47th Regiment, dated Sept. 2, 1901, is found in v. 9 (47th-48th regiments).  A photostat certifying Winslow Lewis as a member of the Boston Light Infantry Association, dated Nov. 1, 1862, is in v. 7 (43rd-44th regiments)
Arrangement: Arranged by military unit
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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; these activities were intensified during the Civil War.  This series identifies militia officers in the military districts in Massachusetts to which they were assigned at that time.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by military district
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Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, came to be responsible for preserving information about past military episodes and service relating to Massachusetts.  This series documents the history of the Charlestown City Guard Rifle Club.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically in reverse order
Notes: While provenance is unknown, the scrapbook was probably assembled by Captain Brown
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Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, has general superintendency over military stores and property.  These affidavits detail consumable military property that had been lost, stolen, destroyed, or expended; they were prepared by company commanders of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia pursuant to Special Order 101 (June 1, 1911) and forwarded to the adjutant general through the quartermaster general.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Letter of transmittal stamped as received by the Adjutant General’s Office (A.G.O.)
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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 summarizes total bounties paid by the Massachusetts municipalities, as well as corresponding reimbursements made to them by the state.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder 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 1866. Spine title: Municipal bounties–summaries of payments
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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.  This series consists of routine telegraphic communications involving the adjutant general.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically in reverse order
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Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Published under title: Annual record.  Reports for 1906-1907, 1909- 912, 1914-1963 missing
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Scope and Content: The adjutant general of Massachusetts, as executive administrator of the state’s military establishment, has been responsible for maintaining and reporting data concerning militia strength.  An annual return was prepared by the adjutant general to provide the governor, as commander-in-chief, with information about military preparedness, which was then forwarded to the General Court.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Some restrictions may apply
Notes: A letter from the adjutant general to the governor, Dec. 1, 1805  transmitting that year’s return, details the procedure by which annual returns were distributed. Returns for 1793, 1795, 1799, 1814-1822, 1824-1826 lacking. Returns may also be found in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. House/Senate unpassed legislation ((M-Ar)230/231) –Also included are annual returns of ordnance and military stores for 1823, 1826-1828 submitted by the adjutant general as acting quartermaster general, but solely for Boston (munitions laboratory) and Cambridge (arsenal) locations.  For other such returns see: Massachusetts. Quartermaster General’s Dept. Annual returns of ordnance and military stores, 1800-1816 ((M-Ar)450X), or: House/Senate unpassed legislation (as above)
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Arrangement: Filed separately; Arranged alphabetically by subject. Arranged alphabetically
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Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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