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 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.  Resolves 1903, c 100 authorized the adjutant general to advertise for the names and addresses of all military personnel in the war who had not received the appropriate bounties, and to place the names before the next session of the legislature.  This series comprises the correspondence resulting from that authorization.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent
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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, consisting of completed forms arranged by company and bound together, identifies the personnel available for service in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in response to General Order 25 of Governor John A. Andrew.
Arrangement: Arranged by military unit
Notes: Copy of General Order 25 attached to front flyleaf
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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.  The state militia was being reorganized and strengthened to meet the needs of common defense for Massachusetts on the basis of authority given to the governor by St 1863, c 243.  This series, consisting of completed forms bound together, validates the enlistment of men in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.
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.  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 documents bounty payments to soldiers, discharged soldiers, and heirs of deceased soldiers, as well as payments in disputed cases reviewed by the General Court.
Restrictions: Restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
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. Pages have been disbound
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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 soldiers enrolled in various military units at Washington, D. C. at that time and identifies the Massachusetts municipality to which credit was to be given for each enlistee.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
Restrictions: Restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
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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 indexes naval correspondence received by the Adjutant General’s Office.  Most of the correspondence originated with the federal Bureau of Navigation, Navy Dept., or fourth auditor of the Treasury.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject (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 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 a listing of municipalities, arranged alphabetically, wherein is designated the total amount of premium payable to each town for recruiting expenses (St 1863, c 38).
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality
Notes: Cover title: United States premiums for recruits
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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.  Unlike other descriptive rolls in which information is arranged by military unit, this series is a straight descriptive listing of Civil War recruits based on that point in time at which they were mustered into state service.
Arrangement: Arranged by county (or camp of rendezvous), then chronologically by date of muster
Notes: Spine title: Enlistment & descriptive rolls
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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 indexes personnel of the state’s military organization who were transferred from the Army to the Navy.  Recording this information became especially important in 1864 after Congress (Acts of 1864, c 13, s 9; c 237, s 8) made it possible to credit naval enlistments to the quotas for which the municipalities were responsible.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
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