Robert Stoddart Robertson (April 16, 1839 – August 24, 1906) was a United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War, while serving with Company K, 93rd New York Volunteer Infantry.

The couple belonged to the Presbyterian colony planted in that region of New York about 1764 by Captain Duncan Cameron, under the patronage of George Douglas Campbell, Duke of Argyle.

Robert received his elementary education in the Argyle common schools, where his teachers marked him as more studious than most boys.

Though he enjoyed the usual sports and recreations of village boys, his father taught him cabinetmaking, which he found useful in later life.

He early chose the law as his life profession and became a student in the office of James Gibson in Salem, New York, in 1859.

Thirty-three years thereafter on July 26, 1897, R. A. Alger, Secretary of War under President McKinley, informed Robertson that the Congressional Medal of Honor was presented him for most distinguished gallantry in action.

They were rapidly approaching; no time was to be lost, for if they reached the opening before me, my march would end in Richmond as a prisoner of war.

The volleys meant for me had roused the brigade, which greeted me with hearty cheers as I rode into line with my saddle under my horse instead of under me.

Gallant Colonel McKeen of the Thirty-first Pennsylvania had charge of that part of the line and spoke words of encouragement to his men, many of whom were raw recruits and had never been under fire before.

We had lost nearly two hundred men and were obliged to leave our dead upon the field.After the Civil War, Robertson became a companion of the Indiana Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Subsequently, he served as a lawyer in Washington D.C. then moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where he was elected Lieutenant Governor as a Republican in November 1886.

"The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to First Lieutenant Robert Stoddart Robertson, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 8 May 1864, while serving with Company K, 93d New York Infantry, in action at Corbins Bridge, Virginia.