A fairly early ribbon for the 8^th reunion of the 5^th PA Reserves. The yellow silk ribbon hangs from a simple pin-back top bar and reads “8^th Reunion / 5^th P.R.V.C.” in white over a separately applied blue cloth 5^th Corps Maltese cross with “Lewisburg, PA. / June 9, 1894” beneath, visibly impressed in the silk, but with no color. The ribbon shows signs of storage in damp environment with some red color transfer, likely from another ribbon stored with it, and a pinhole at the bottom. The bottom silver fringe is in place.

At the beginning of the war Pennsylvania exceeded its federal quota for volunteers, but the state retained the men in service and created a Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps of 15 regiments organized into division of three brigades who took the field and saw a great deal of action in the war. The 5^th Pennsylvania Reserves were also designated the 34^th Pennsylvania Infantry in the state’s sequence of line regiments. The unit served from June 1861 to June 1864, seeing most of its action while in the 5^th and 1^st Army Corps, and was engaged with losses at such battles as Malvern Hill, Gaines Mill, New Market Crossroads, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, losing 14 officers and 127 men killed or mortally wounded, plus dozens of wounded men who recovered.  [sr]

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