Robert E. Lee represented the dignity needed by a rebelling confederacy.

Victim of the accident was Robert Lee Stansbery, 39.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

Jefferson Davis considered him the best general in the country ; this was two months before the emergence of Robert E. Lee as the pre-eminent general of the Confederacy.

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 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 ).

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia ( 26, 765 troops ) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.

* Robert Lee Constable, Cornell University.

* 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.

In 1920 he married Celia Inez Peckham, who became the mother of his three children, Raymond Ben, Robert Peckham and Celia Lee.

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

The author Robert Lee speculated that Teach may therefore have been born into a respectable, wealthy family.

In science and technology, Columbia alumni include: founder of IBM Herman Hollerith ; inventor of FM radio Edwin Armstrong ; inventor of the nuclear submarine Hyman Rickover ; founder of Google China Kai-Fu Lee ; scientists Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Millikan, Helium – neon laser inventor Ali Javan and Michael Pupin ; chief-engineer of the New York City subway William Barclay Parsons ; philosophers Irwin Edman and Robert Nozick ; and economist Milton Friedman

Independently and contemporaneously, a 19-year-old American student named Robert Lee Moore published an equivalent set of axioms.

She was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children of Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco farmer, and his wife Avie Lee Owens.

* 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.

Two years later, Robert von Lieben and Lee De Forest independently developed the amplifier tube, called the triode.

Enter the Dragon is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Robert Clouse ; starring Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly and John Saxon.

Before leaving, Lee learns from his teacher that Han's bodyguard O ' Hara ( Robert Wall ) had been involved in the death of his sister, Su Lin ( Angela Mao ), years ago, when she committed suicide to save herself from dishonour after being cornered by O ' Hara and a collection of Han's thugs.

* Lee, Robert A, Orwell's Fiction.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

Robert ( Bob ) M. Frankston ( born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York ) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

Robert " Bob " Young is a serial entrepreneur whose biggest success has been Red Hat Inc, the open source software company.

James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

Robert Quinlan " Bob " Costas ( born March 22, 1952 ) is an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s.

* People: Barry Boehm, Vint Cerf, Douglas Engelbart, Robert Fano, Anup K. Ghosh, James Hendler, Bob Kahn, JCR Licklider, John Poindexter, Larry Roberts, Robert Sproull, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, Gio Wiederhold.

It was here that their second child, Robert " Bob " Marshall Gardner, was born in 1874.

Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.

Robert James " Bob " Ritchie ( born January 17, 1971 ), known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations.

Robert James " Bob " Ritchie was born on January 17, 1971 in Romeo, Michigan to William " Bill " Ritchie, a car dealer who owned several local dealerships, and Susan Ritchie.

Robert or Bob Morris may refer to:

( 2000 ), " Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon ( Bob ) ( 18941978 )", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, ( Melbourne ), pp 354 – 361.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

* Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything: or Old Bob Exposes His Ignorance ( July 30, 2005 ) Sounds True ISBN 1-59179-375-0, ISBN 978-1-59179-375-5

Robert Stevens, Bob Stevens or Bobby Stevens may refer to:

When Premier Cahill died on 22 October 1959, he was replaced by Askin's friend and parliamentary contemporary, Robert " Bob " Heffron, which tended to calm his aggression and opposition towards the government.

Robert Arthur " Bob " Moog ( ; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005 ), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

Richard Nixon throwing Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | RFK Stadium on April 7, 1969 with Ted Williams ( left ) and Bob Short ( right, partially obscured by Ralph Houk ).

* Bob Smart's Dream, a 1906 poem by Robert Service that speculates about the Whitehorse of the future.

* September 9 – Sir Robert ( Bob ) Askin, Premier of New South Wales ( b. 1907 )