The age-yellowed silk ribbon hangs from a silvered floral top bar with a pin back. A printed blue Maltese cross symbolizing the regiment’s service in the 3^rd Division of the Fifth Army Corps is prominent at center with the letters PRVC in faded whiter or silver on its arms. At top is printed “13^th Reunion / 5^th Regiment” (with the PRVC on the arms of the cross intended to fill out the designation) and under the cross: “Lewisburg, PA. / May 9, 1900.” There is some slight discoloration and bleeding from a red ribbon onto this one. The lines of text have largely lost their ink, though the impression is legible. The bullion fringe is in place, though missing a couple of tassels. There are a couple of pinholes at bottom, likely from being pinned to a display board at one time. Still, a solid ribbon that shows off the blue corps badge well.

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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