After one day at Mudd's house, Booth and Herold hired a local man to guide them to
Samuel Cox's house. Cox, in turn, took them to Thomas Jones, a Confederate sympathizer who hid Booth and Herold in
Zekiah Swamp for five days until they could cross the
Potomac River. On the afternoon of April 24, they arrived at the farm of Richard H. Garrett, a tobacco farmer, in
King George County, Virginia. Booth told Garrett he was a wounded Confederate soldier.
