If you’ve visited the page “About the Thunderbolt Raiders” on this site, you know that Gen. Basil W. Duke is the protagonist of the screenplay we’re writing.
A Nickname Gives Birth to a Legend
Thunderbolt Raiders is the story of a Civil War raid held 150 years ago and a reunion held 100 years ago.
The 1913 reunion was of Morgan’s Raiders, cavalrymen who served under the dashing, enigmatic Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan, known in the South as the “Thunderbolt of the Confederacy.”