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 list of naval personnel from Massachusetts arranged by municipality and surname of sailor. It was prepared to credit Massachusetts municipalities with military personnel toward their enlistment quotas.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality, thereunder alphabetically by surname
Notes: An explanatory note is found inside the front flyleaf of each volume. Prepared by Frederick W. Cross, military archivist, the note explains the federal legislative basis of creation of these records. –Vol. 1: A-B. Vol. 2: C-M. Vol. 3: N-Y. –Reel GSU 505: A-Canton. Reel GSU 506: Carlisle-Y
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Adjutant General’s Office: List of naval credits
Adjutant General’s Office: Index to naval bounty payments
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 index records Massachusetts servicemen enlisting in the U.S. Navy. It was created to index payrolls that detail bounty payments made to naval personnel (St 1864, c 143, s 3; c 211, s 2).
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
Notes: Although the adjutant general had responsibility for militia pay records before, during, and after the Civil War, including this series, from Dec. l864 (pursuant to General Order 51) such records were in the specific custody of the paymaster general until that office lapsed in 1866. A typed note attached to the front flyleaf, probably prepared by Frederick W. Cross, military archivist, provides historical background on the creation of the series. A note from the Office of Paymaster of State Bounties is affixed to the first page
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Adjutant General’s Office: Enlistment and elective rolls for the U.S. Marine Corps
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. Prepared at the request of the Massachusetts adjutant general by Marine Corps officials, this series documents Massachusetts enlistees in the U.S. Marine Corps at that time.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) Enlistment rolls (2) Descriptive lists (3)Enlistment certificates; arranged within each subseries chronologically by date of enlistment
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Adjutant General’s Office: Index to Massachusetts Volunteers 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 is a name index of Massachusetts Volunteers in the U.S. Navy at that time.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
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Adjutant General’s Office: Returns of naval enlistments by municipality
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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Adjutant General’s Office: Index to naval personnel from Massachusetts
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 index identifies naval personnel from Massachusetts by name and town of residence.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
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Adjutant General’s Office: Naval enlistments by town
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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Adjutant General’s Office: Enrollment reports from cities and towns
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 established the identity of those eligible for military service at that time on a town-by-town basis. Pursuant to St 1860, c 13, s 2 and St 1864, c 238, s 3, municipal officers, primarily selectmen and assessors, prepared such lists.
Arrangement: In four subseries: (1) Enrollment lists (2) Enlistment rolls (3) Correspondence (4) Certificates of enlistment
Notes: Series incomplete: volume 8 (Hadley to Ipswich) only.
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Adjutant General’s Office: Lists of entitlements to prize money
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. Created pursuant to Resolves 1886, c 59, this series establishes those entitled to prize money in Admiral Farragut’s fleet for service during the Civil War.
Arrangement: Arranged by vessel and crew
Notes: Collated: 1886
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Adjutant General’s Office: Rolls of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
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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