On August 27, 2011 a much smaller group gathered to celebrate the statue’s centennial and the horse-mounted man it depicts, General John Hunt Morgan, CSA.

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 previous story dealt with plans to enlarge the Buffington Island battleground on the National Register of Historic places, and mentioned other locations on the register linked to the Thunderbolt Raiders.

Many African-Americans volunteered to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

In its heyday, Camp Chase was a bustling 160 acre facility, a training ground for thousands of Union troops and the fifth largest prison camp in the U.S.