The Civil War Uniforms of the United States Marine Corps: The Regulations of 1859
Dr. Charles H. Cureton entered his present appointment as Chief, Museums and Historical Property, Training and Doctrine Command, in September 1988. Previously, he served as director of the Frontier Army Museum at Fort Leavenworth and director of the 101st Airborne Museum at Fort Campbell. Dr. Cureton was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1972 and in 1983 he was assigned to the Marine Corps Historical Center. As a reserve lieutenant colonel he participated in the Persian Gulf War as a field historian. He was subsequently appointed as head of the first joint field history team sent to Somalia and Haiti. In 1997, he was appointed as officer-in-charge of the Marine Corps Field History unit. Dr. Cureton holds a BA in History and Psychology, an MA in History, and a PhD in History. His publications include Marines in the Persian Gulf War: With the First Marine Division and U.S. Marines: A History of Marine Corps Dress, and Fort Monroe: A Walking Tour.David M. Sullivan, the 2003 recipient of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation s General O. P. Smith Heritage Award, is the administrator of the Company of Military Historians, and editor of its journal Military Collector & Historian. He is also president of the International Naval Research Organization and executive production editor of its journal, Warship International. Sullivan holds a BA in Military History. He is the author of the four-volume series, The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War; and editor of the revised and expanded Biographical Sketches of the Commissioned Officers of the Confederate States Marine Corps. He was a contributing author to Dr. William N. Still s The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1861 65.