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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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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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 general superintendency over military stores and property.  This series provides an inventory of what appear to be certain consumable ordnance stores located in various municipalities throughout Massachusetts.
Arrangement: Arranged by municipality, thereunder by military unit
Notes: While matters concerning artillery and ordnance stores characteristically are associated with the position of Quartermaster, that office was in a state of hiatus from 1821 until 1861.  During that time the Adjutant General’s Office met the responsibilities of the Quartermaster General’s Dept. Cover title: Artillery stores.
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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 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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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.  During the Spanish-American War, many persons and organizations offered various services to the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, such as raising troops, use of private property, and professional and technical assistance such as engineering and medicine.  This series identifies persons and organizations offering such contributions.
Notes: Spine title: Endorsements
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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, apparently prepared retrospectively, lists men from Boston who saw service in the U.S. Navy at that time.  It was probably created to validate allowances stemming from federal legislation (Acts of 1864, c 13, s 9; c 237, s 8) that made it possible to credit municipalities with naval enlistments in fulfilling their quotas.
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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, probably prepared shortly after the war, consists of a list of soldiers receiving bounties from municipalities for military service.
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. 1864 (pursuant to General Order 51) such records were in the specific custody of the paymaster general until that office lapsed in 1866.  Collated: 1865? Vol. 1 (Reel GSU 512): A-K.  Vol. 2 (Reel GSU 513): L-Z; summaries of payments
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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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