 Harbin took Booth and Herold to another Confederate agent in the area named William Bryant who supplied them with horses.While Lincoln's funeral train was in New York City on April 24, Lieutenant Edward P. Doherty was dispatched from Washington at 2 p.m. with a detachment of 26 Union soldiers from the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment to capture Booth in Virginia, accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Everton Conger, an intelligence officer assigned by Lafayette Baker.The detachment steamed down the Potomac River on the boat "John S. Ide", landing at Belle Plain, Virginia, at 10 pm.