In the desperate summer of 1863, with the Confederacy facing defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan—the "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy"—was ordered to create a diversion in Kentucky. But Morgan had a grander, more reckless plan. Defying direct orders, he led over 2,000 cavalrymen across the Ohio River on a thousand-mile raid through Indiana and Ohio, seeking to bring the terror of war directly to the Northern home front. This episode tells the story of that legendary ride: a tale of audacious plunder, widespread panic, a relentless Union pursuit, and the spectacular, strategically bankrupt failure that became known as Morgan's Great Raid.

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