At a meeting of Company A of the 50th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, held at the Lafayette House in Salem, Massachusetts on May 27, 1880, a committee was appointed to form a regimental association and to invite comrades to an annual reunion. After notifying officers of the regiment of the idea for an association and reunion, it was decided by the committee that enough interest warranted holding the first reunion of the regiment at Ocean House in Revere Beach, on August 24, 1880. At the reunion, attended by 157 members of the regiment, a report was given by the appointed members of the committee, recommending the formation of a regimental association. The report and recommendation was accepted by the present members of the regiment, thus establishing the 50th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Association. The association included an elected executive committee comprising of a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary, and a treasurer. Additional committees were appointed for the purposes of arranging continued regimental reunions and publishing a history of the regiment.