New Veteran Oral History
Dr. Chris Magra, Director of the Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War, recently conducted a new veteran oral history interview with Lieutenant Colonel Logan Hickman, U.S. Army, retired. The interview is now available on the Center’s YouTube channel.
Watch the interview on YouTube
A 1980 graduate of the University of Tennessee, Hickman was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Infantry and went on to serve 22 years in the U.S. Army. His career included leadership assignments as a platoon leader; rifle and headquarters company commander; assistant professor of military science; battalion operations officer; inspector general; deputy chief of staff for operations; and Professor of Military Science at Mississippi State University.
Hickman’s service took him to assignments in Georgia, North Carolina, California, Kansas, Tennessee, Southwest Asia, Egypt, Mississippi, and Alaska. His operational deployments included the 1983 invasion of Grenada with the 82nd Airborne Division, peacekeeping duty with the Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai, Egypt, in 1987, and service with the 1st Infantry Division during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
From 1989 to 1993, Hickman served in the University of Tennessee Army ROTC Department. He concluded his military career in 2002 as Professor of Military Science at Mississippi State University.
Since retiring from the Army, Hickman has worked in community banking and the retail pleasure boat industry while continuing to give his time to nonprofit organizations. He is the founding president of the University of Tennessee Army ROTC Alumni Council. He and his wife, Johnnie, also established a UT scholarship for an Army ROTC cadet majoring in business.
Now living in LaFollette, Tennessee, Hickman and his family remain closely connected to the Volunteer State. His oral history preserves firsthand reflections on military service, leadership, and the experiences that shaped his distinguished career.
The Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War records and shares these accounts to help students, scholars, and the public better understand the lives of Tennesseans who have served in times of conflict.