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.  This series appears to document the mustering of several batteries of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia entering the military or naval service of the United States during the Spanish-American War.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by company/regiment
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Scope and Content: During the Civil War, muster-out rolls (July 1864-Jan. 1866) documented the official completion of federal service by a given Massachusetts military unit or individual. These rolls were produced in multiples by company clerks and received by various government offices, one each to the company commander, Adjutant General of the Army, and the Bounty Bureau, and two to the paymaster. Series contains rolls for regiments of the Massachusetts Volunteers, primarily 3-year units that often mustered out before their 3-year term was completed, due to the end of the war. Information on the rolls includes pay/bounty obligations already met, as well as those needing settlement. –On both types of muster-out rolls, headings indicate commanding officer, company, regiment, place, date and length of enlistment (generally 3 years) and date discharged. Listed for each soldier is his name, age, rank, unit, when where and by whom enrolled and mustered. Financial information can include: date and by whom last paid; money due the soldier, the government or the sutler for clothing; and bounty or back pay paid or remaining due. A remarks column may give a variety of information about the soldier’s status, including illnesses, hospitalizations, death/killed in action, missing, absent without leave, transfers (including Navy service), prisoner of war status, pay earned, and promotions. Some include indications of amounts to be stopped out of the –See also: List of mustering-outs, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)710X). Some muster-out information is summarized in: Descriptive rolls of Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)443X).
Arrangement: Arranged by regiment
Restrictions: Restricted as fragile (crumbling, brittle, some staining). Bound and silked versions of these rolls at the Massachusetts National Guard Military Museum and Archives in Concord should be used instead
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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 lists Massachusetts Volunteers joining the U.S. Navy at that time.
Arrangement: Volumes arranged chronologically by year, thereunder alphabetically by surname
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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 and after the Civil War these activities were intensified, particularly as they related to fulfillment of municipal recruitment quotas and determinations of entitlement to state aid, bounties, and other benefits.  Consisting of lists of Massachusetts recruits entering the service of the U.S. Navy, this series established the basis of the distribution of recruitment credits to Massachusetts municipalities.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality, thereunder alphabetically by surname
Notes: Vol. 1 (Reel GSU 503): Boston.  Vol. 2 (Reel GSU 504): Other towns, A-Y; Maine towns
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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 and administering information about all aspects of the state’s military service.  Established by St 1899, c 381, an Examining Board for Officers was responsible for interviewing each elected officer of the militia to determine his qualifications and competency in military, moral, and physical terms.  The enabling legislation prescribed the manner in which meeting data was to be recorded, as is done in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Cover title: Records of the Examining Board for Officers of the Volunteer Militia
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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.  This series documents furloughed members of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia resuming service there after having completed a tour of duty in the U.S. Army or Navy during the Spanish-American War.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by company/regiment
Notes: Most sheets are 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 general superintendency over military stores and property.  Pursuant to St 1843, c 29 the governor appointed a two-member commission to survey ordnance stores, muskets, and other military equipment held in the state arsenals at Boston and Cambridge.  Consisting of Thomas Warner and Rufus Chandler, the commission returned this report as of May 31, 1843.
Arrangement: Arranged by class of military equipment
Notes: There is no specific basis for determining how this report came to be held by the Adjutant General’s Office
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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 comprises a research file assembled by Frederick W. Cross, military archivist in the Adjutant General’s Office, in the course of his work on the publication: Massachusetts soldiers, sailors, and marines in the Civil War.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by regiment
Notes: These materials were bequeathed to Williams College by Frederick Cross. They were returned to the custody of the state (specifically the Adjutant General’s Office) in 1950 by Williams College Librarian Wyllis E. Wright, a letter from whom details the transfers
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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 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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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 and after the Civil War these activities were intensified, particularly as they related to fulfillment of municipal recruitment quotas and determinations of entitlement to state aid, bounties, and other benefits.  This series, consisting of letters and lists from selectmen and justices of the peace to the adjutant general, identifies enlistments from the cities and towns into the U. S. Navy.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality
Notes: Volume for A-G lacking.  Vol. 2: H-P.  Vol. 3: Q-Y. –Reel GSU 504: v. 2-3 (Somerset). Reel GSU 505: v. 3 (Somerset-end)
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