[2] He received his early education in the public schools and at Orleans Liberal Institute at Glover, Vermont.

[3] Grout requested return to his regiment, but on October 1, 1863, he was discharged due to his wounds.

After the Confederate St. Albans Raid in late 1864, in January 1865, Grout was commissioned as a captain and assigned to command Company M, Vermont Frontier Cavalry, which performed patrol duty along the Canadian borders with New York and Vermont.

[1] He was admitted to the bar in December 1865, and in 1866 moved to Island Pond, where he was in charge of customs collections for the districts of Newport and St.

[1] In 1874, he moved to Chicago, and afterward to Moline, Illinois, where he was one of the supervisors of Rock Island County for two years.

[1] At the Republican State Convention on June 17, 1896, Grout was narrowly nominated as the party's candidate for governor, receiving 339 votes compared to William W. Stickney's 336.

Grout's term was highlighted by enhancement to the state's educational system, a visit to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.

Due to the short duration of the war, however, the Vermont regiment saw no active service and returned to the state on August 21, where it was reviewed by Grout at Camp Ethan Allen.