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The Breakthrough
A comrade of Robeson’s wrote about the battle on April 2, 1865: “The men of Lane’s Brigade were some twenty feet apart in the trenches when the final attack was made. Our thin line could make but feeble resistance. We detained them, however, until the lines were broken beyond us.” Robeson surrendered with the army at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
1st Lieutenant Evander McNair Robeson
Company K, 18th North Carolina
Infantry, Lane’s Brigade,
Wilcox’s Division, Third Corps
Resident: Bladen County, North Carolina
Enlisted: April 1861
Location of the marker
The Breakthrough – Evander Robeson wayside marker is on the Breakthrough trail at Pamplin Historical Park near Petersburg, Virginia. (37° 10.957′ N, 77° 28.382′ W)