PRESS PHOTOS BY DONNA GEWERTZ Mule Skinner's String Band - Ken Gehret, Mike Henry and Rich Pawling - acknowledge the sixth birthday of young Civil War enthusiast Layne Schroeder, of Lenhartsville, at Camp Geiger on the Whitehall Parkway during Lehigh Valley Civil War Days April 29 and 30.

Ty Dewitt, of Pottstown; Cindy Etzkorn, of Milford; Ryan Herbsleb, of Pottstown; and Bill Etzkorn, of Milford, prepare sausages for breakfast at the encampment.

A flag flies above the encampment of Union volunteer brigade engineers atop a ridge in the Whitehall Parkway.

The 14th Brooklyn Army of the New York state militia marches toward the mock battleground in the Whitehall Parkway.

Greg Hale, from Phoenixville, fires a shot during a mock Civil War skirmish in the Whitehall Parkway.