Glasgow, Missouri

City: Glasgow

County: Howard

State: Missouri

Lat/Long: 39.2167, -92.8333

Glasgow is a small town located in Howard County, Missouri. Located on the Missouri River, seventy-two miles from Jefferson City, Glasgow was platted in 1836 by thirteen men, including a James Glasgow, to serve as a central shipping point for local agriculture. Glasgow had a population of 1,025 in 1860, 271 of which were enslaved. A minor battle was fought within the town on October 15, 1864, during General Sterling Price's raid into Missouri in the final months of the Civil War. Price's Confederates forced the surrender of the Union garrison before being defeated in a larger battle at Westport ten days later.

Thomas Baldwin and J. Thomas, New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1854), 429; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Glasgow, Howard County, MO, 292; Bill Earngey, Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995), 101-2; Frances H. Kennedy, ed., The Civil War Battlefield Guide, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 382, 384