GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF TENNESSEE,
Numbers 14.} Holly Springs, Miss., December 22,
1862.
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 into four army corps, as follows:
1st. The troops composing the Ninth Division, Brigadier
General G. W. Morgan commanding; the Tenth Division,
Brigadier General 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.
2d. The Fifth Division, Brigadier General Morgan L. Smith
commanding; the division from Helena, Ark., commanded by
Brigadier General F. Steele, and the forces in the District
of memphis will constitute the Fifteenth Army Corps and be
commanded by Major General W. T. Sherman.
3d. The Sixth Division, Brigadier General J. McArthur
commanding; the Seventh Division, Brigadier General I. F.
Quinby commanding; the Eighth Division, Brigadier General L.
F. Ross commanding; Second Brigade Cavalry, Colonel Lee
commanding, and the troops in the District of Columbus
commanded by Brigadier-General Davies, and those in the
District of Jackson commanded by Brigadier-General Sullivan,
will constitute the Sixteenth Army Corps, and be commanded by
Major-General Hurlbut.
4th. The First Division, Brigadier General J. W. Denver
commanding; the Third Division, Brigadier General John A.
Logan commanding; the Fourth Division, Brigadier General J.
G. Lauman commanding; First Brigade of Cavalry, Colonel B.
H. Grierson commanding, and the forces in the District of
Corinth commanded by Brigadier General 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 headquarters, as well as to army corps
headquarters, and will for the present receive orders from
department headquarters.
By order of Major General U. S. Grant:
JNO. A. RAWLINS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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