. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . appointed a bureau of finance, which fromApril, 1863, till January, 1865, made all disbursements ofthe State, amounting to more than one million this period he refused to summon the Supreme Court condemned this arbitrary course, butthe people subsequently applauded his action, and theState assumed the obligations he had incurred. In 1864he was nominated and elected governor, but resigned inJanuary, 1867, to take his seat in the United States Senate,to which he was re-elected in 1873, and wa
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . appointed a bureau of finance, which fromApril, 1863, till January, 1865, made all disbursements ofthe State, amounting to more than one million this period he refused to summon the Supreme Court condemned this arbitrary course, butthe people subsequently applauded his action, and theState assumed the obligations he had incurred. In 1864he was nominated and elected governor, but resigned inJanuary, 1867, to take his seat in the United States Senate,to which he was re-elected in 1873, and was chairman ofthe Committee on Privileges and Elections, and the leaderof the Republicans. He labored zealously to secure thepassage of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution,and was the trusted adviser of the Republicans of theSouth. He was offered the English mission by PresidentGrant, but declined, lest his State should send a Demo-crat to succeed him in the Senate. He died of paralysisat his home in Indiana in 1877. 270 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM W. GROUT, Lieutenant-Colonel William W. Grout was born ofAmerican parents in Compton, , May 24, 1S36. estry is traced back to Dr. John (J-rout, who came fromEngland in 1630,and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts,llis great-grandfather, Elijah Grout, of Charlestown, NewHampshire, served as commissary in the RevolutionaryWar. His grandfather, Theophilus Grout,settled on theMoose River, in the new State of Vermont, upon landafterwards included in the present town of Kirby, in theyear I799> and there cleared a large farm. William W. Grout received a common-school and aca-demic education, and was graduated at the PoughkeepsieLaw School, New York, in 1857. He was admitted tothe bar in December of the same year, and settled in thepractice of law at Barton, Orleans County, Vermont. InJul_\-, [862, he was nominated by the Republicans of saidcounty to the office of State
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