Holly Springs, Miss.,  Dec. 22,  1862.
GENKRAL ORDERS,]
     NO.  14.      j
     By direction of the General-in-Chief of the  Army, the troops in this Department,
including those of the Department of the Missouri operating on the Mississippi River, are
hereby divided iDto Four Army Corps, as follows:
     I.  The troops  composing the Ninth Division, Brig.-Gen. G. W. Morgan, command-
ing; the Tenth Division, Brig.-Gen. A. J.Smith, commanding, and all other troops operating
on the Mississippi River below Memphis, not  included in the Fifteenth Army Corps, will
constitute the Thirteenth Army Corps, under the command of Major-General John  A.
McClernand.
     II.  The Fifth Division, Brig.-Gen. Morgan L. Smith, commanding; the Division from
Helena, Arkansas, commanded by Brig.-Gen. F. Steele, and the forces in  the " District of
Memphis," will constitute the Fifteenth Army Corps, and be commanded by Major-General
\V. T. Sherman.
     III.  The Sixth  Division, Brig.-Gen. J. McArthur, commanding; the Seventh Division
Brig.-Gen. I. F. Quinby, commanding;  the Eighth  Division, Brig.-Gen. L.  F. Ross, com-
manding; Second Brigade of Cavalry, Col. A.  L. Lee, commanding, and the troops in the
" District of  Columbus," commanded by Brig.-Gen. Davies, and those  in the "District of
Jackson," commanded  by Brig.-Gen. Sullivan, will constitute the Sixteenth Army Corps,
and be commanded by Major-General S. A. Hurlbut.
     IV.  The First  Division, Brig.-Gen. J. W.Denver, commanding; the  Third  Division,
Brig.-Gen. John  A. Logan,  commanding; the Fourth Division, Brig.-Gen. J. G. Lauman,
commanding;  First Brigade of Cavalry, Col. B. H  Grierson, commanding, and the forces
in the "District of Corinth," commanded by Brig.-Gen.  G. M. Dodge, will constitute the
Seventeenth  Army Corps, and be commanded by Major-General J. B.  McPherson.
     District Commanders  will  send consolidated returns of their forces to these Head
Quarters as well as to  Army Corps Head Quarters, and will, for the present, receive orders
from Department Head  Quarters.
     By order of Major General U. S. Grant.
                                         J]NTO.  A.  RAWLINS,
                                                      Assistant Adjutant General.
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                      soldiers.
   Mr. French, the Second Auditor of the Treasury Depart
 ment, bas been overwhelmed within the last few days.
 with letters from  discharged soldiers.  By a late act of
 Congress  soldiers discharged from the army by reason of
 wounds received in battle are entitled to the United States
 bounty; but this law  is generally misconstrued, so that
 soldiers discharfied for disability and other causes except-
 ing wounds in battie, imagine themselves entitled to the
 bounty.   Aright understanding of the  law would save
 soldiers, as well as the Treasury Department, much work
 and trouble,