At Port Royal, fugitives John Wilkes Booth and David Herold, accompanied by three former Confederate soldiers, arrived at the Brockenbrough-Peyton House about 2:30 pm on April 24, 1865, ten days after Booth shot Lincoln. Randolph Peyton was not home, and his sister Sarah Jane Peyton admitted the men after Booth was presented as a wounded Confederate soldier seeking a place to stay. Booth made himself at home in the parlor, but Miss Peyton soon decided it would be improper for them to remain while the man of the house was absent, and she directed them to the Garrett Farm. Richard Henry Garrett operated a modest farm about three miles south, where Booth and his party arrived later that afternoon. As Booth stayed with the Garretts, Federal soldiers closed in, and in the early morning hours of April 26, members of the 16th New York Cavalry cornered Booth and Herold in the Garrett tobacco barn. Herold surrendered, but Booth remained inside after the barn was set on fire, made a break for the door, and was shot. He died on the front porch of the Garrett house, and Herold was later executed.