PRESS PHOTOS BY DONNA GEWERTZJayce Nieves, of Emmaus, sits in an officer’s tent of the Union Army during Lehigh Valley Civil War Days, held April 26 and 27 at Whitehall Parkway, 4689 S. Church St., after completing his first two days of battle reenactments to become a full member of the Pennsylvania 153rd regiment.

Jillian and Finn McMullen, of Coplay, visit the Whitehall Parkway-turned-Camp Geiger for the event. The weekend included battle reenactments, firings of cannons and rifles, camp life demonstrations and an opportunity for visitors to speak with Civil War historians. Camp Geiger is named in honor of Christopher Geiger, of Northampton, who died serving in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan in 2003. Lehigh Valley Civil War Days is an annual event created to keep the history of the Civil War alive.

Confederate reenactor Sgt. Lawrence Richard (middle left) of Ono, Lebanon County, receives an award for his 17 years of service to the 14th North Carolina Company F Rough and Ready Guards. The award contained projectiles once fired from a gun in a Civil War battle and was presented by Mark Benner (middle right) of Hagerstown, Md.

Robert Slamp, a Civil War reenactor from Huntsville, Ala., serves as the Union Army’s bugler, which was a critical position to relay instructions to troops on the battlefield in an era when radio technology did not exist.

Civil War reenactors from the Union Army get their photograph taken by Brandon Benner, of Victorian Photography Studio, of Gettysburg. The antique photo process uses potassium cyanide to etch the photograph on a tin plate, a craft that took Benner more than four years to perfect.

A group of Civil War reenactors portraying the 28th Pennsylvania regiment stand near a covered supply wagon in their encampment. The regiment is referred to as the Mifflin Guard as its historic base of operation is Fort Mifflin, located near the Philadelphia International Airport.

An advancing line of Confederate troops fires a volley of musket shots toward an enemy position.

Jeff Mangual (second from right) of Nassau County, N.Y., and Matt Dellinger (right) of Brooklyn, N.Y., instruct new recruit of Civil War reenactors in basic training of the manual of arms in order to take part in historic reenactments. The troops portray members of the 14th Brooklyn and 16th Maine regiments.