The Author
Mary C. Gillett received B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from The American University. She worked for the Naval History Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1966 to 1969 and, beginning in 1972, for The Historical Unit of the U.S. Army Medical Department. She joined the U.S. Army Center of Military History when it absorbed The Historical Unit in 1976. She is now chief of the Conventional War Studies Branch of the Center's Histories Division. She is the author of The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818, and The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865, and of articles concerning the history of military medicine in the United States.
