But I was deeply moved by his letter of resignation as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

He made the following remarks in his letter of resignation, as the Head of the Psychiatry Department at the Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria:

Though this has never been proven, many observers in the press and academia believe that the US has not provided convincing answers to several of the more suspicious details surrounding the coup, such as the circumstances under which the US obtained Aristide's purported letter of " resignation " ( as presented by the US ) which, translated from Kreyol, does not actually read as a resignation.

After the release of Black Wednesday government documents, it became apparent that Major came very close to stepping down from office at this point, having even prepared an unsent letter of resignation addressed to the Queen.

( His letter of resignation, sent from Cairo, Illinois, was accepted by the War Department on May 14.

His hand-written resignation letter, dated November 2, stated: " The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

When Carson learned that Carleton intended him to pursue the Navajo, he sent Carleton a letter of resignation dated February 3, 1863.

Bismarck, forced for the first time into a situation he could not use to his advantage, wrote a blistering letter of resignation, decrying Wilhelm's interference in foreign and domestic policy, which was published only after Bismarck's death.

In lieu of a courtmartial, Buchanan gave Grant an ultimatum to sign a drafted resignation letter.

" You decided to deal with the devil ," she wrote in her resignation letter.

A suicide note of sorts, actually a draft of a resignation letter, was found torn into 27 pieces in his briefcase, a list of complaints specifically including, " The WSJ editors lie without consequence " and lamenting, " I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington.

* August 8 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( Davis refuses the request upon receipt ).

In his letter of resignation to the President and the Attorney General he wrote: " It seems to me that the policy of raids against large numbers of individuals is generally unwise and very apt to result in injustice.

He also submitted a letter of resignation to Adjutant General Samuel Cooper on December 30, 1863, but his request to be relieved was denied.

Nixon's resignation letter, August 9, 1974

The Queen Is Dead reached number two in the UK charts, and consisted of a mixture of mordant bleakness ( e. g. " Never Had No One Ever ", which seemed to play up to stereotypes of the band ), dry humour ( e. g. " Frankly, Mr. Shankly ", allegedly a message to Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis disguised as a letter of resignation from a worker to his superior ), and synthesis of both, such as in " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out " and " Cemetry Gates ".

On February 2, Virgil and Wyatt resigned from their positions as Deputy U. S. Marshals in a letter published in The Daily Epitaph, though Dake refused Wyatt's resignation.

* Cryptome. org-Poindexter's resignation letter to DARPA Director Anthony Tether ( August 12, 2003 )

Nixon's resignation letter, August 9, 1974.

" Within weeks of making this statement, Watt submitted his resignation letter.

" Needless to say, the officers are polarized by these decisions, with a large number signing a letter of resignation, until Hyperdog convinces them all to stay.

Set in 1963 during the Profumo scandal, Hugh Whitemore's play A Letter of Resignation, first staged at the Comedy Theatre in October 1997, dramatises the occasion when Harold Macmillan, staying with friends in Scotland, received a political bombshell, a letter of resignation from Profumo, his war minister.

Some deceivers cut pages from books that American President Richard Nixon ( c. 1970 ) signed on the blank flyleaf, typed his letter of resignation from the presidency on that signed page, and then sold the doctored item as if Nixon had personally signed a scarce copy of the historical document.

After the decision received more journalistic attention, The Flat Hat continued to follow the controversy, including revocation of a twelve-million-dollar donation, placement of the cross in a display case, and, ultimately, Gene Nichol ’ s resignation of the presidency of the College ( which was impelled in part by the controversy surrounding the cross in the Wren chapel controversy ).

To complicate matters, Benedict IX, unable to obtain the bride on whom he had set his heart, soon repented his resignation, claimed the papacy again, and in his turn is thought to have succeeded in acquiring dominion over a part of the city.

When Heath called a leadership election at the end of 1974, Powell claimed they would have to find someone who was not a member of the Cabinet that " without a single resignation or public dissent, not merely swallowed but advocated every single reversal of election pledge or party principle ".

Fujimori then flew to Japan, where he submitted his resignation and claimed Japanese citizenship.

During his testimony at Nuremberg, Frank claimed he submitted resignation requests to Hitler on 14 occasions, but Hitler would not allow him to resign.

Flynt's investigation also claimed that Congressman Bob Barr, another Republican House manager, had an affair while married ; Barr had been the first lawmaker in either chamber to call for Clinton's resignation due to the Lewinsky affair.

The Guardian claimed the letter to be " the most damning " of the publicly expressed sentiments regarding Kennedy's position, and later that day Kennedy announced his resignation.

Prior to his resignation, he claimed that the Bush administration was " stonewalling " and blocking the committee's access to key documents and witnesses.

Following a speech to students at Mexico City's Ibero-American University on November 11, 2003, in which Aguilar claimed that the political and intellectual class of the United States sees Mexico as " a country whose position is that of a back yard " ( patio trasero ) and that Washington was interested in only " a relationship of convenience and subordination " and " a weekend fling " ( un noviazgo de fin de semana ), President Fox requested his resignation on 18 November.

The Cabinet had to vote to prevent it ; Queen Victoria reputedly was so incensed by the possibility of her Foreign Secretary supporting an outspoken republican that she asked the Prime Minister, Lord John Russell for Palmerston's resignation, but Russell claimed that such a dismissal would be drastically unpopular at that time and over that issue.

In his trial, he claimed that he planned to detain Park if the latter were to visit the Third Army Group base on his annual tour of army groups and force his resignation.

However, Radivojević later claimed that he never offered a resignation.

Soon, Radivojević claimed that he never made a request for resignation, in order he could vote for SDP's proposal, however, in July, a court expert, found his signature on request for resignation authentic.

Tripp claimed that the firing was vindictive, but the Clinton administration countered that all political appointees like Tripp are normally asked to submit their resignation upon a new administration taking over, and those who refuse are fired.

It has been claimed that Ryder and other Conservatives on the Board of Governors were effectively responsible for " forcing out " Director-General Greg Dyke, who had not initially believed that his offer of resignation would be accepted by the Governors.

The left-wing opposition claimed, in vain, his resignation after the murder of Malik Oussekine by police, during the demonstration of young against the Devaquet law.

However, campaigners claimed that Cameron's resignation was due to political pressures motivated by the JNF-KKL's discriminatory policies in Israel.

While Agee claimed that the CIA was " very pleased with his work ", offered him " another promotion " and his superior " was startled " when Agee told him about his plans to resign, the anti-communist journalist John Barron claims that Agee's resignation was forced " for a variety of reasons, including his irresponsible drinking, continuous and vulgar propositioning of embassy wives, and inability to manage his finances ".

Jenkins claimed that he had been encouraged to apply to become a pre-approved Conservative candidate by the Party's group leader in the Welsh Assembly, Nicholas Bourne, had been subsequently pre-approved by the Conservative Party as a candidate and then selected to fight the Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South constituency by the local party in that seat but that the potential controversy that his selection could have caused and the effect on David Cameron's image led David Cameron to demand his resignation as a candidate despite the Conservative Party in Wales giving Jenkins its full backing.

In the subsequent Dáil debate on the resignation, Tánaiste and Labour Party leader William Norton claimed:

He claimed that his resignation would have no effect on the process.

He also claimed members of the Board of Visitors had been threatened by legislators if they did not order his resignation, and that the Virginia government was unhappy with his efforts to diversify the student body and faculty.

Safely out of reach of the Ethics Commission, Hitchcock, through her lawyer, claimed to have approached George Pataki, then the Governor of the State of New York, asking for the case to be reopened and investigated in order to " clear her name ," a toothless request, knowing that the Ethics Commission had no authority to investigate her after her resignation.

He however claimed that this was not the sole reason for his resignation, but rather one amongst several other.