Confederate Giant, tallest man in the Confederate army

Murphy’s

Law One can only imagine what the Union soldiers must have thought at the sight of a giant wearing a Confederate uniform running toward them in the heat of battle. Henry Clay Thruston was beyond a doubt the tallest man in the Confederate army. Perhaps at the time he lived he could have been one of the tallest men in the world at 7 feet 7-½ inches in heigh...

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