The remainder were now reduced to the last extremity, and when the young lieutenant went up to his superior, with the calm but heroic inquiry " Is there anything more I can do?" the reply of Colonel DEVENS was " Nothing but take care of yourself." And when the Colonel cried to his brave men " I shall never surrender" and with benediction, " God be with you all," gave the final order, " every man for himself." Lt. GROUT had done his duty, and nobly justified the highest expectations of his admirers. After waiting for the first faint glimpse of the rising moon,he threw his incumbrances beyond recovery, and with a few companions plunged into the stream, but before he could reach the opposite shore, the fatal ball of the barbarous assassin left him only time and strength to exclaim " Tell Company D that I should have escaped, but I am shot." He was lost in the dark rollinf waters of the Potomac, but after some time the river yielded up the treasure, and under the flag of his heroic love he was borne from the paternal mansion " to the house appointed for all living." We are indebted for the facts here given to a memorial written by Rev. E. CUTLER, soon after the gallant soldier was killed, and it is a priceless gem among the family possessions, and they have thus had it inserted in this volume to further perpetuate the pathetic story of one who gave up his young life to save his comrades and his country as well. The sister of Lt. John William GROUT was Ellen Mandeville GROUT born in Princeton, Mass. at the foot of Mount Wachusett in 1840. Oct. 1862 she married Rev. George H. GOULD, who 2 years later was pastor over the old Center Church in Hartford, Conn. About 1870 the returned to Worcester and for several years was pastor of Piedmont Church.He died May 8, 1899. Ellen M. (GROUT) GOULD married (2nd) to Rev. William S. SMITH of Auburndale. THE END