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 “Third Reunion” appear in an arc at the top and the regimental designation “5^th P.R.V.C.” under that, with a border at top and bottom. Below that is a separately applied, impressed Maltese cross corps badge of the 5^th Army Corps. The location and date of the reunion appear at bottom: “Jersey Shore, Penna. May 8th, 1889.”

There has been some color transfer of red from the ribbon onto the originally blue corps badge and vice versa. The ink of the lettering is gone in some places, though the letters are plain from the impressions on the fabric. The rear of the badge shows a small circular paper label from the Baltimore badge makers Torsch and Lee.

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 men who were wounded, but recovered.  [sr]

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