20th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
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The 20th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry （Scott Legion） was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
One of the Keystone State's three-month service regiments, this unit's tour of duty took its members from Philadelphia to South Central
Pennsylvania and then southeast to Maryland and Virginia （into Martinsburg and other areas that are now part of West Virginia）.
Formed during a meeting on Thursday, April 25, 1861 by members of the "Scott Legion," a group of soldiers who had served under General Winfield Scott
during the Mexican–American War, the 20th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was led by William H. Gray, a 46-year-old resident of Philadelphia,
who had been appointed as commanding officer of the regiment and awarded the rank of colonel at this same meeting, Gray then began his recruitment efforts the next day at multiple recruiting locations in Philadelphia.
By Saturday of that same week, his ranks were full and, by the next week, were overflowing as an additional 600 men volunteered.
Recruitment flyer used by the 20th Pennsylvania Volunteers （also known as the Scott Legion）, Philadelphia, 1861.
Mustering in at Philadelphia on April 30, the newly enlisted men then elected the following as Field and Staff Officers on May 7: George Moore, lieutenant colonel; Andrew H. Tippin,
major; Edwin R. Biles, adjutant; Charles A. Jones, quartermaster; A. B. Campbell, surgeon; Samuel H. Horner, assistant surgeon; and William Fulton, chaplain.
According to Bates, "Of the thirty-seven [company and field] officers chosen, nearly all were elected unanimously, and thirty-one of this number were member...