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Henry Martyn Robert (May 2, 1837 – May 11, 1923) was an American soldier officer and general, engineer, and author. In 1876, Robert published the first edition of his reference manual of parliamentary procedure, Robert's Rules of Order, which remains today 150 years later, as the most common parliamentary authority on democratic parliamentary procedure in the United States.
William P. Roberts (July 11, 1841 – March 28, 1910) was an American politician and diplomat. He was also a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded cavalry in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War .
Charles DuVal Roberts (June 18, 1873 – October 24, 1966) was a highly decorated officer in the United States Army with the rank of Brigadier General. He received the Medal of Honor for valor in action on July 1, 1898, near El Caney , Cuba during Spanish–American War .
Harold Cyrus Roberts (October 1, 1898 – June 18, 1945) was a highly decorated officer in the United States Marine Corps with the rank of colonel. He was the recipient of three Navy Crosses , the United States military's second-highest decoration awarded for valor in combat.
Lieutenant Colonel Archibald E. Roberts (1915–2006) was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army on 19 December 1942 and served as a paratrooper in the 11th Airborne Division. In 1959 he served as the information officer for Major General Edwin Walker who was the commander of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany. [ 3 ]
George Washington Roberts (October 2, 1833 – December 31, 1862) was an American soldier who served as colonel and commanding officer of a Union Army brigade in the Army of the Cumberland during the American Civil War. Roberts was killed in action leading his troops to repel Confederate attacks at the Battle of Stones River in 1862.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Roberts was major of the 3rd U.S. Cavalry. He served in Arizona and New Mexico in 1861 and 1862. He was promoted to brigadier general of Volunteers on July 16, 1862, and assigned to General John Pope's staff as Chief of Cavalry and Inspector General for the Army of Virginia during the Northern Virginia Campaign.
In the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force, major is a field officer above the rank of captain and below the rank of lieutenant colonel. It is equivalent to the rank of lieutenant commander in the Navy and Coast Guard. Although lieutenant commanders are considered junior officers by their services, majors are senior ...