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Further Reading
Forgotten Warriors
Korea is Americ's Forgotten War. We were unprepared for war when North Korea invaded the South. Our men were outnumbered, outgunned, and untrained. Not only did they have to fight a ruthless, seasoned enemy, but had to contend with extreme weather conditions, and an unforgiving terrain. Of the 1.7 million Americans who served in the war, 33,686 were killed in action, 103,000 were wounded, and more than 7,900 are still missing in action. Forgotten Warriors is their story.
Freedom's Struggle
A story about a historically significant area whose role in the antislavery movement largely has gone untold. The author tells us about the forgotten heroes of the Underground Railroad in this Ohio River county, along with the religious and political struggles that took place before the American Civil War. Freedom's Struggle is presented as a microcosm of the national antislavery movement in all its facets; religion, politics, law, and the colonization and abolitionist societies.
A review from Ohio Valley History:
Knepp "succeeds admirably... writing a focused and valuable study of the response to slavery within a relatively small area of the Ohio Borderlands."
"Reading the book will make readers want to travel to the area using the book as a guide,"
Beyond the Names
Beyond the Names: A Tribute to the Clermont County, Ohio, Vietnam War Dead is a work of love and admiration for forty men who lost their lives as a result of the Vietnam War. All of them came from Clermont County, Ohio; they served in every branch of the military. Gary L. Knepp, an attorney and adjunct professor of American history and political science at the University of Cincinnati, wrote the book to keep the sacrifices of these men from fading into obscurity.
Beyond the names received the Distinguished Service Award from The Vietnam Veterans of America for its contributions to the Vietnam Veteran.
Musings from Land of the Clear Mountain
Clermont is French for "clear mountain" and this publication represents twenty-five years of the author's meandering along the byways of Clermont County's fascinating history. It is meant to be a collection of stories that interested the author and that he felt would interest the reader. From the prehistory of the county through the county's two hundred years of immigration, disasters, notoriety, wars, antislavery endeavors, agriculture and manufacturing, as well as a potpourri of miscellaneous stories, you will be unable to put this book down.
TO CROWN MYSELF WITH HONOR
The letters transcribed within this volume were written during the American Civil War by Capt. Asbury Gatch to his wife, Mary Etta Hopper Gatch. The span from February 1864 through the end of the war. These letters present the portrait of a man of honor and conviction from Milford, Ohio, who dearly loved his wife and family, who often dreamed of soft bread and porterhouse steaks, who gossiped about the home front, who criticized the stay-at-home "patriots," who derided the Southern aristocracy, and who wrote glowingly of his exploits at war. This revised edition includes new and expanded notes and more than seventy illustrations.
Over There: An Ohio Community's Experiences in the Great War
Nearly two million Americans—young, innocent, and patriotic—were sent to the blood-soaked battlefields of Europe to, as President Wilson declared, "Make the World Safe for Democracy." There, they encountered the horrors of modern war—poison gas, disease, death, and destruction on an unimaginable scale. Through it all, the doughboys upheld their American ideals, earned a reputation as fearsome, courageous fighters, and won the Great War. Over There is the story of how the men and women of one Ohio community, both at home and abroad, met the challenge of their generation.
A Legal History of Clermont County, Ohio: A Publication of the Clermont County Bar Association
Gary Knepp, local attorney and historian, has uncovered some amazing and interesting cases and facts surrounding Clermont County's contribution to the antislavery movement and military service. This book uncovers its legal past from its first civil rights attorney, John Jolliffe; its contribution to Ohio's constitution; the first chief justice to the Ohio Supreme Court, Hugh L. Nichols; the first female, Anna Quimby, admitted to the United States Supreme Court. It also covers one of the wealthiest men in the world, New Richmond's John Haussermann, "The Gold King of the Philippines." Other stories include, among others, Ohio's first environmental criminal case. A fascinating read.