The University Archives & Special Collections of Lincoln Memorial University are located in the Carnegie-Vincent Library, on the 2nd Floor. To schedule a research visit or to make inquiries, please contact archivist Rachel Motes by email Rachel.Motes@LMUnet.edu or by phone 423-869-6537.
The mission of the University Archives & Special Collections (UASC) at Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) is to identify, preserve, provide reference assistance for, and make available rare and unique materials. The UASC maintains these research materials because they are of enduring cultural and historical value, and help to document the legacy of Lincoln Memorial University while also bringing awareness to regional Appalachian history.
Graduating from LMU in 1941, Ross Carter joined the paratroopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Infantry. Serving with this unit across Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Western Europe, Ross Carter was an eyewitness to the dark days of World War II. A skillful writer, Ross Carter composed his memoirs of his overseas service in the autumn of 1945, but died of cancer shortly thereafter. His brother, Boyd G. Carter, posthumously published Ross Carter's memoirs entitled Those Devils in Baggy Pants in 1951. The book was an instant best-seller and remains one the finest first-hand accounts of front-line service during the Second World War.
