Father: Alexander Herndon
Mother: Ann Billingsley
1850 - Lived, Eastern District,
Spotsylvania Co, VA
1857-59 - Attended, University of VA, Charlottesville, VA
1860 - Medical student, Berkeley Parish, Spotsylvania Co, VA
1861 - M.D. degree, The University
of the City of New York,
Medical Department, New York, NY
from VA before medical school)
07/19/1861 - Appointed, Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
09/15/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, General Hospital, Culpeper Court House, VA
09/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, General Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
09/30/1861 - Ordered to report to the
Surgeon General - in person
12/24/1861 - Assigned as Asst. Surgeon,
5th TX Infantry
01/04/1862 - Joined 5th TX Infantry
01/04/1862 - Detached to serve at the Brigade Hospital
02/00/1862 - Asst Surgeon, Hospital No. 3,
TX Brigade, 2nd Corps,
Army of Potomac, Dumfries, VA
03/26/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Texas Brigade Hospital, Fredericksburg, VA
07/08/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, St. Charles
Hospital, Richmond, VA
08/23/1862 - Ordered to Camp Maryland,
near Richmond, VA
10/08/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, camp near
Winchester, VA
10/08/1862 - Ordered to set up a medical purveying depot in Staunton, VA, for
the Army of Northern Virginia
10/31/1862 - Asst. Surgeon and Medical Purveyor, Staunton, VA
11/13/1862 - Asst. Surgeon and Medical Purveyor, Staunton, VA
04/01/1863 - Asst Surgeon and Medical Purveyor, Hanover Junction, VA
04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by
the Confederate States Senate
07/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon & Medical Purveyor, Staunton, VA
08/13/1863 - Asst Surgeon & Medical Purveyor, Gordonsville, VA
09/12/1863 - Asst Surgeon & Medical Purveyor, Gordonsville, VA
09/20/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Richmond, VA
10/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Richmond, VA
02/27/1864 - Ordered to Lake City, FL, to
assume the duties of Medical Purveyor
03/22/1864 - Asst Surgeon, Medical Purveyor's Office, Eastern District of FL,
Lake City, FL
06/24/1864 - Asst Surgeon and Medical Purveyor, Lake City, FL
07/31/1864 - Asst Surgeon and Medical Purveyor, Lake City, FL
05/18/1865 - Paroled from Confederate Army,
Lake City, FL
10/02/1867 - Married, Maria Cogdell Gilchrist
1874,1880 - Practiced medicine, Richmond,
Henrico Co, VA
1882- Member, Board of Visitors, Medical
College of VA, Richmond, VA
07/26/1883 - Married, Julia Kane Gilchrist (Maria Gilchrist's sister)
1886 - Practiced medicine, 401 E. Main St., Richmond, Henrico Co, VA
- Lecturer on anatomy and physiology,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Lecturer on physiology and hygiene,
Medical College of Virginia,
Richmond, VA
- Physician to the Medical College of Virginia,
Richmond, VA
1889 - Physician to Randolph-Macon College
1890 - Practiced medicine, Ashland,
Hanover Co, VA

Note: Hollywood cemetery records show a Dr. J. B. Herndon buried on 02/21/1897. This is most likely a typo and what was meant was
Dr. Z[achary] B[illingsley] Herndon was buried on 02/21/1897.

Note: Significant input to this biography was
provided by Chris Ferguson

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
12/23/2011. Unpublished database.