London Glasgow (abt. 1841 - 1863)

Born about 1841 in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 18 Jul 1863 at about age 22 in Morris Island, Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

London Glasgow is a part of US Black heritage.

London was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania about 1841 and was a farmer prior to the war. ^[1]

Occupations

• 1863: Farmer

Residences

• 1863: Unionville, Pennsylvania (military enlistment)
• 1850: West Marlborough, Pennsylvania with his parents and siblings

Military Service

Private London Glasgow served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Mar 11, 1863
Mustered out: Jul 18, 1863
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Co. B 54th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry

Private London Glasgow was Killed in Action during United States Civil War.

Private London Glasgow was Missing in Action during the United States Civil War.

Private in the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment, Company B. Enlisted on 11 March 1863 from from Unionville, Pennsylvania. He was 22 years old, single and working as a farmer when he enlisted. He went missing on 18 July 1863 at Fort Wagner and is presumed killed in action during the Union assault on the Confederate battery at Fort Wagner, located on Morris Island. ^[2] The casualties were all buried in a mass grave on Morris Island. Today, Morris Island is uninhabited and has suffered from erosion. It is believed that the US Army reinterred the remains on the island to the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina, marking the graves as "unknown." ^[3]

Abraham Glasgow, who also served in Company B, may have been a relative.

Research Notes

Possible relative?

1859 Chester borough directory

I. Glasgow / colored laborer / Welsh above Filbert

Projects

• 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave
2. ↑ Emilio, Roster p.346
3. ↑ Find A Grave

• 1850 Seventh Census of the United States, (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; database and digital images, "1850 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009 (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 May 2018); citing Year: 1850; Census Place: West Marlborough, Chester, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_764; Page: 158A; Image: 321.
• Emilio, Luis Fenollosa. History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865, Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Book Co., 1891 (1st ed.) and 1894 (2nd ed.)
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 04 May 2018), memorial page for Pvt London Glasgow (1841–18 Jul 1863), Find A Grave Memorial no. 92564573, citing Battery Wagner Mass Union Grave (Defunct), Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Ron Goode (contributor 47476624) .