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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Adjutant General’s Office: Telegrams
Adjutant General’s Office: Awards correspondence
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. In this correspondence, commanding officers of units of the 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division American Expeditionary Forces, recommended individual soldiers for awards for heroism in World War I, including the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, and Distinguished Service Medal.
Arrangement: Arranged by correspondence file number
Notes: Based on a penciled note with the file, it appears that these records were sent to the state secretary’s office at some point for photostatic copying
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Adjutant General’s Office: Monthly bounty payrolls of Massachusetts Volunteers
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. These payroll sheets, the authority document by which payment was made, record bounty payments to individual soldiers who, in turn, acknowledged receipt of payment by signing the sheet.
Arrangement: Arranged by roll no., thereunder chronologically
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: Bounty pay rolls of Mass. Volunteers. –Reel GSU 508: 1- 388. Reel GSU 509: 388-1301. Reel GSU 510: 1301-2185. Reel GSU 511: 2185-3118. Reel GSU 512: 3118-3681
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Adjutant General’s Office: List of persons offering services during the Spanish-American War
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. During the Spanish-American War, many persons and organizations offered various services to the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, such as raising troops, use of private property, and professional and technical assistance such as engineering and medicine. This series identifies persons and organizations offering such contributions.
Notes: Spine title: Endorsements
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Adjutant General’s Office: List of seamen and officers from Boston in the U.S. Navy
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, apparently prepared retrospectively, lists men from Boston who saw service in the U.S. Navy at that time. It was probably created to validate allowances stemming from federal legislation (Acts of 1864, c 13, s 9; c 237, s 8) that made it possible to credit municipalities with naval enlistments in fulfilling their quotas.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
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Descriptive rolls of Massachusetts Volunteers
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 rolls describe personnel of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia during the Spanish-American War period. Prepared by unit commanders and by the Recruiting Service in Boston, they reflect the expansion of recruitment activity.
Arrangement: Arranged by military unit
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Adjutant General’s Office: Proceedings of the Examining Board for Officers of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
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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Adjutant General’s Office: Correspondence concerning administration of the militia
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 of incoming correspondence relates to administration of the state militia during the last year of the Civil War.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Adjutant General’s Office: Inventory of artillery stores
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. This series provides an inventory of what appear to be certain consumable ordnance stores located in various municipalities throughout Massachusetts.
Arrangement: Arranged by municipality, thereunder by military unit
Notes: While matters concerning artillery and ordnance stores characteristically are associated with the position of Quartermaster, that office was in a state of hiatus from 1821 until 1861. During that time the Adjutant General’s Office met the responsibilities of the Quartermaster General’s Dept. Cover title: Artillery stores.
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Adjutant General’s Office: Report on ordnance stores held in state arsenals
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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