Your horse's hoof struck him.

When, seeing I was beaten, I rode back, his head was split wide open.

I did not tell you at the time because I knew it would cause you pain, and a dead greaser more or less made no difference." Later on General Grant took desk room in Victor Newcomb's private office in New York.

There I saw much of him, and we became good friends.

He was the most interesting of men.