The Adams County News Newspaper - Saturday, March 23, 1912

Bane was seven feet four inches in height and weighed 300 pounds. Bane was known from coast to coast wherever a G. A. R. national encampment was held. It was Bane whom Lincoln addressed at Gettysburg, saying, "Will that fellow please get down off the stump.

The Day book., March 19, 1912, Page 29

Captain William . ('Pat") Bane, known from coast to coast as tallest soldier of Civil War, is
dead at home near Pittsburgh, He was over 8 feet in height.

The Somerset herald., January 12, 1898, Image 2

No Uniform Big Enongh.
Congressman Acbeson, of Washington, Pa, has introduced in the House a bill granting a pension of _ per month to William P. Bane, of Nineveh. Greene County. "Pat" Bane, as he is familiarly known, is termed the Greene-County giant, being over seven feet high in his stocking feet.

The ground on which Representative Acbeson asks a pension for the "Greene-County Giant" is that Bane contracted rheumatism while in the Army, because of insufficient clothing. The fact is said to be that when Bane enlisted no uniform large enough to cover him comfortably could be found, so he had to get along with clothing that left portions of his anatomy, top, bottom, and middle, more or less exposed to the inclemency of the weather.

William Patterson Bane