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 invoices and describes various military stores supplied by the General Storekeeper (Quartermaster General’s Dept.) to the commanding officers of various vessels and divisions of the Massachusetts Naval Militia (M.N.M.).
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, 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: Upon declaration of war with Great Britain in 1812, the U.S. War Dept. ordered the organization of state militia units, with Massachusetts having a quota of 10,000. Military orders were issued by the Massachusetts Adjutant General and other officers to direct militia units during the War of 1812.  Series consists of one volume of bound military orders sent to Capt. Moses Ames or Ensign/Lieut. Levi Brigham of the 1st Regt., 3rd Brig., 1st Div. of the Massachusetts Militia. Arranged from July 12, 1812 to Oct. 18, 1815, they include printed pages of orders as well as handwritten orders and notes. General orders, as well as division, brigade, and regimental orders are included. –Military orders directed those in command to carry out operations and policies, in this case specific to the War of 1812. General orders include forwarding of federal directives from the Secretary of War to organize the militia into regiments for detachment, and directives to commanders of state militia units to transmit to the Adjutant General returns of their men, arms, and equipment. Other orders relate to war preparations such as acquisition of arms, uniforms and other supplies, details of parade drills and training exercises, signals to be used to indicate attacks, preparing units to be ready for immediate response, or giving detachments specific assignments, including guard duty. Routine directives include calls for official escorts for special occasions, such as accompanying the Governor on Election Day and Harvard Commencement. In 1815 emphasis is on discharges and return of ordnance. –Orders also often address personnel issues, including assignments and discharges; election, appointment and resignations of officers; and courts martial. There are also calls for meetings of officers at designated times and places, and general commentaries on the readiness and appearance of troops.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Connecticut State Library, including correspondence relating to its original purchase by the library in 1921
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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.  After World War I, federal and state authorities cooperated in making available as trophies various stores of military property confiscated from the Germans.  This material, consisting of such items as swords, bayonets, rifles, accouterments, and small artillery pieces, was distributed among the states, who in turn arranged to sell it to a variety of purchasers, including municipalities, American Legion posts, and individuals.  This ledger details the purchase of trophies by organizations and individuals in Massachusetts from the state quartermaster, acting on behalf of the adjutant general.
Arrangement: Arranged by account
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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.  These maps were created to show the positions occupied by Union and Confederate forces on each of the three days of the Gettysburg battle.
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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, 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; 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.
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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 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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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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