PRESS PHOTOS BY DONNA GEWERTZ Rich Pawling, of Sinking Spring, portrays a preacher holding a nondenominational church service for Union soldiers during Lehigh Valley Civil War Days, held April 29-May 1 on the Whitehall Parkway. Pawling used the script from an actual Civil War sermon from 1861 during his re-enactment.

Union Army Quarter Master Sergeant Dave Ashcroft, of Denver, describes the shot guns used in the Civil War to Tyler, Wyatt, Ashley and Sawyer Bachman, of Whitehall.

Union soldiers defend their positions from oncoming Confederate soldiers during the Lehigh Valley Civil War Days re-enactment of the Battle of Malvern Hill.

Bill Rodman, of King of Prussia, serves as a camp cook, preparing a breakfast of sausage for hungry soldiers. He used a tactic of many Civil War-era soldiers of using a worn-out canteen split in half as a frying pan to heat food over the campfire.