Lineage
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 2d Battalion, 11th Infantry
- Organized 6 June 1862 at Fort Independence, Massachusetts
- Reorganized and redesignated 6 December 1866 as the 20th Infantry
- Assigned 9 July 1918 to the 10th Division
- Relieved 14 February 1919 from assignment to the 10th Division
- Assigned 18 September 1920 to the 2d Division
- Relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 2d Division and assigned to the 6th Division (later redesignated as the 6th Infantry Division)
- Inactivated 10 January 1949 in Korea
- Activated 4 October 1950 at Fort Ord, California
- Relieved 3 April 1956 from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division
- Reorganized 15 November 1957 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
- Withdrawn 16 August 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
- Redesignated 16 August 1986 as Headquarters and Headquarter Company 5 Battalion 20 Infantry (Mechanized) assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea
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“I declare
Two lineages electrify the air,
That will like pennons from a mast
Fly over sleep and life and death
Till sun is powerless to decoy
A single seed above the earth:
Lineage of sorrow: lineage of joy....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)