[7] Robertson was the Chief Historical Consultant in the 2003 Warner Brothers film Gods and Generals, which prominently features Stonewall Jackson.

[9] In 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Robertson to serve as the executive director of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, a federal committee that was foundering under the pressures of regional differences and the emerging civil rights movement, unable to organize a dignified commemoration of the war era.

Robertson worked effectively with 34 state and 100 local centennial committees to create a successful result.

[5] Fifty years later, he was named a charter member of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission.

[10] In 2011, Robertson wrote and hosted, with William C. "Jack" Davis, the 3-hour documentary "Virginia in the Civil War: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance".

[15] His main other contribution to college athletics was by being an Atlantic Coast Conference football referee for 16 years.