Bridgeport, October 18, 1863—11.12 p. m. Major-General Rosecrans:
A scouting party from my command captured at Trenton a staff officer of General Wheeler, bearing dispatches to General Bragg; also the flag taken from a regiment at McMinnville. Wheeler is at Courtland awaiting orders from Bragg. No force of the enemy was found at Trenton. Rebel dispatches forwarded to General Hooker.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major- General.