United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania
The 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry lost 3 officers and 22 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 100 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1863
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| June to August | Organized at Harrisburg for six months service |
| July 7 | March to Greencastle |
| July 8-24 | Scouting into Maryland and pursuit of Lee |
| July 25 | Moved to Falling Water and picket shores of the Potomac |
| August | Ordered to Sir John’s Run, W. Va and assigned to guard duty on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad with the Department of West Virginia.Companies F and I at Berkeley Springs.
Companies D and E at Bloomery Gap. Companies A and H at Great Cacapon Bridge. Company C at Hancock The five Emergency Companies on duty at Philadelphia, Reading and Pottsville, Pa. |
| September 1 | Skirmish at Bloomery Gap and at Bath |
| September | Regiment concentrated at Sir John’s Run, W. Va. for duty there and at Springfield |
| December 7-11 | Scout in Hampshire, Hardy, Frederick and Shenandoah Counties (Detachment) |
| December 24 | Regiment moved to Harrisburg, Pa. |
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1864
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| January 7 | Mustered out |
| February | Reorganized at Harrisburg and Philadelphia |
| March | Reported to Sigel at Martinsburg, W. Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Dept. West Virginia |
| April 30-May 16 | Sigel’s Expedition to New Market, Va. |
| May 14 | Rude’s Hill and New Market |
| May 15 | Battle of New Market |
| May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg |
| June 4 | Harrisonburg |
| June 5 | Piedmont, Mt. Crawford |
| June 6 | Occupation of Staunton |
| June 10 | Staunton |
| June 11 | Midway |
| June 12 | Cedar Creek and Piney River near Amherst C. H. |
| June 14 | Near Glasgow |
| June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
| June 19-July 15 | Retreat to Kanawha Valley, thence to Parkersburg and Martinsburg |
| June 21 | Catawba Mountains and about Salem |
| July 17 | Martinsburg |
| July 17-18 | Snicker’s Ferry |
| July 19 | Ashby’s Gap and Berry’s Ford |
| July 21 | Ashby’s Gap |
| July 23 | Near Kernstown |
| July 24 | Kernstown, Winchester |
| July 25 | Bunker Hill and Martinsburg |
| July 30 | Ordered to Harper’s Ferry |
| August | Duty at Halltown, Pleasant Valley and Cumberland, Md. Attache to 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
| November | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Shenandoah |
| December 19-28 | Expedition from Winchester to Gordonsville |
| December 21 | Madison C. H. |
| December 22 | Liberty Mills |
| December 23 | Near Gordonsville |
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1865
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| February 27-March 25 | Sheridan’s Expedition from Winchester |
| March 2 | Swoope’s Depot and Staunton |
| March 2 | Waynesboro |
| March 11 | Goochland C. H. |
| March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Campaign. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| March 30-31 | Dinwiddie C. H. |
| April 1 | Five Forks |
| April 2 | Scott’s Cross Roads |
| April 4 | Tabernacle Church or Beaver Pond Creek |
| April 6 | Sailor’s Creek |
| April 8 | Appomattox Station |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| April 23-29 | Expedition to Danville |
| May | March to Washington, D.C. |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June 17 | Consolidated with 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry to form 1st Provisional Cavalry Regiment. |