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 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: 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 is a typescript draft used in preparation of the publication: Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia called out by the governor of Massachusetts to suppress a threatened invasion during the War of 1812-14.
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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.  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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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.  These lists identify members of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia at that time by regiment and company, providing information about their respective discharge from military service.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by regiment, thereunder by company in reverse alphabetical order
Notes: Reel GSU 507: regts. 1-26 (start).  Reel GSU 508: regts. 26 (end)-54; re-enlistments regts. 2-19
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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 log of inquiries sent to federal agencies for the purpose of obtaining information to complete service records of U.S. naval personnel from Massachusetts. The log appears to index another unidentified series.
Arrangement: Arranged 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.  Local boards of assessors were required to gather the names of all males between the ages of eighteen and forty-five liable for military service, passing the information on to the adjutant general through the offices of town and city clerks (St 1840, c 92, ss 2-4).  This series consists of lists of men by Boston ward who were liable to perform military duty.
Arrangement: Arranged by city ward
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Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, was made responsible for annual inspections of militia troops pursuant to St 1793, c 14, though at certain periods, notably the Civil War years, the task was delegated to an inspector general.  This series consists of letterpress copies of correspondence regarding such inspections from the adjutant general, acting as inspector general, to assistant inspector generals and other subordinate officers.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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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 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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