A crimson silk reunion ribbon with stamped brass pin back top bar and bullion fringe from the veterans of the 5^th regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps.  Two horizontal bands with embossed stars border the ribbon at top and bottom. The words “Fourth Reunion” in an arc at top have an eight-pointed star beneath and the regimental designation “5^th P.R.V.C.” under that, with a border at top and bottom. The location and date of the reunion appear at bottom: “Columbia, Penna. May 14, 1890.” In the middle of the badge is a separately applied Maltese cross, the badge of the Fifth Army Corps with a metal false embroidered “5” secured to it by two prongs. The badge is pressed with a border and raised center that appears red, but this seems to be color transfer from the red ribbon of the badge, which appears blue (for the Third Division) on other ribbons of this organization and, indeed, some of the blue seems to have transferred from the emblem to portions of the ribbon, perhaps from being folded and stored in a moist environment. The ink of the lettering likewise appears gone in some places, though the letters are plain from the impressions on the fabric. The rear of the badge shows a small circular glue stain. Judging from another ribbon from this organization it may be from a small paper label used by the Baltimore badge makers Torsch and Lee. There are some minor runs to the fabric at the very bottom of the ribbon.

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 Reserve Volunteer 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 Spottsylvania, losing 14 officers and 127 men killed or mortally wounded, plus dozens of wounded men who recovered.  [sr]

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