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.  This series consists of original correspondence from a variety of sources, including Gardiner Tufts, one of the Massachusetts military agents, relating to military personnel from Massachusetts who had transferred from the Army to the Navy.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Spine title: Transfers from Army to Navy
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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 indexes military personnel from Massachusetts transferred from the Army to the Navy.  The documentation was created to validate entitlement to a twenty-dollar per month bounty for each enlistee.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
Notes: Cover title: Soldiers transferred to Navy and entitled to
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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.  Series consists of alphabetical listings of Massachusetts Volunteers providing service in the U.S. Navy at that time.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) v. 1-7 (A-B, C-E, F-H, I-L, M-O, P-S, T-Y)  (2) v. 8 (A-M)  (3) v. 9-11 (A-F, G-M, N-Z); –arranged within each subseries alphabetically by first letter of surname
Notes: Vol. 9-11 designated v. 1-3 on spine. –Reel GSU 538: v. 1-3 (D. Gleason).  Reel GSU 539: v. 3 (D. Gleason)-v. 6 (R. Shofield).  Reel GSU 540: v. 6 (R. Shofield)-v. 10 (I. Jones).  Reel GSU 541: v. 10 (I. Jones)-v. 11
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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.     Prepared for federal authorities during the Civil War, these reports give daily indications of the number of men available for duty, special duty, or extra duty. Totals are given for those absent on detached service, absent with leave, sick, confined, or absent without leave. Series also documents unit locations.
Arrangement: Arranged by regiment, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Held by the Record and Pension Division of the U.S. War Dept. until transferred to the Adjutant General’s Office, 194-? Series incomplete. Includes regiments for Cavalry 2; Heavy Artillery 1; Infantry 2, 11, 15, 23, 25, 27-28, 31-36, 39, 61
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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 Massachusetts, as executive administrator of the state’s military establishment, has been responsible for maintaining and reporting data concerning militia strength.  An annual return was prepared by the adjutant general to provide the governor, as commander-in-chief, with information about military preparedness, which was then forwarded to the General Court.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Some restrictions may apply
Notes: A letter from the adjutant general to the governor, Dec. 1, 1805  transmitting that year’s return, details the procedure by which annual returns were distributed. Returns for 1793, 1795, 1799, 1814-1822, 1824-1826 lacking. Returns may also be found in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. House/Senate unpassed legislation ((M-Ar)230/231) –Also included are annual returns of ordnance and military stores for 1823, 1826-1828 submitted by the adjutant general as acting quartermaster general, but solely for Boston (munitions laboratory) and Cambridge (arsenal) locations.  For other such returns see: Massachusetts. Quartermaster General’s Dept. Annual returns of ordnance and military stores, 1800-1816 ((M-Ar)450X), or: House/Senate unpassed legislation (as above)
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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.  Originally used to confirm the personnel of each unit and validate payment of the military personnel during the War of 1812, these rolls subsequently were used to substantiate claims of expenditures made by Massachusetts against the United States.
Arrangement: Arranged by military unit
Notes: A report inquiring into records held by the Massachusetts state secretary, pursuant to Resolves 1884, c 60, provides the following information:  “The muster rolls of the War of 1812 are not in the office, but are in Washington, whither they were sent, it would appear, under the Resolve of February 1, 1816, which directed the Secretary and Treasurer to deliver to the agent appointed to prosecute the claims of Massachusetts against the General Government, all rolls, vouchers, accounts and papers necessary to substantiate that claim for expenses incurred during the war.  The Legislature of the state, at various times, has passed resolves looking to the recovery of these rolls, but they have never been obtained.  The Adjutant-General has succeeded in obtaining copies of a part of them….” Reel GSU 530: v. 1-2 (start).  Reel GSU 531: v. 2 (end)-v. 3 (start).  Reel GSU 532: v. 3 (end)-v. 5 (start).  Reel GSU 533: v. 5 (end)-v. 6 (start). Reel GSU 534: v. 6 (end)-v. 7 (start).  Reel GSU 535: v. 7 (end)-v. 9 (start).  Reel GSU 536: v. 9 (end)
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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 an index to Massachusetts residents killed in the service of the United States during World War II.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
Restrictions: Some restrictions may apply
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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 summarizes total bounties paid by the Massachusetts municipalities, as well as corresponding reimbursements made to them by the state.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder 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 1866. Spine title: Municipal bounties–summaries of payments
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