Father: Dabney Herndon (1783-1824)
Mother: Elizabeth Herndon Hull (1789-1825)
12/20/1824 - Father, Dabney, died, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., VA
04/20/1825 - Mother, Elizabeth, died, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., VA
1829 - M.D. - University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (from VA before medical school)
1829-1839 - Practiced medicine, Culpeper C. H., VA
11/25/1830 - Married, Lucy Ellen Hansbrough (1813-1878), Salubria Plantation, Culpeper Co., VA (or Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., VA)
1840 - Practiced medicine, Fredericksburg, VA
08/02/1850 - Practiced medicine, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., VA (lived with wife, L. E., and seven children - indexed in 1850 U.S. Census as Dr. B. S. Herndon)
11/28/1862 - Reported to the Medical Director, Gen. G. W. Smith's Command
12/10/1862 - Assigned to Gen. Hospital #10, Richmond, VA
03/00/1863 - Served, Gen. Hospital #19, Richmond, VA
05/30/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 11/28/62
07/00/1863 - Served, Gen. Hospital #19, Richmond, VA
09/00/1863 - Served, Gen. Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), Richmond, VA
09/29/1863 - Served, Medical Board of Examination, Richmond, VA
01/00/1864 - Served, Gen. Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), Richmond, VA
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon from VA by Confederate States Senate
05/00/1864 - Served, Gen. Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), Richmond, VA
02/13/1864 - Relieved from Medical Board of Examination, Richmond, VA
07/00/1864 - Served, 5th Division, Winder Hospital, Richmond, VA
08/18/1864 - Relieved from Winder Hospital, assumed temporary charge of Gen. Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), Richmond, VA
09/09/1864 - Served, Gen. Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), Richmond, VA
09/10/1864 - Relieved, Gen. Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), assigned to Winder Hospital, Richmond, VA
10/04/1864 - Relieved from Winder Hospital, assigned to Camp Lee, VA
12/19/1864 - Served, Gen. Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), Richmond, VA
01/20/1865 - Surgeon-in-charge of a ward, Gen Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), Richmond, VA
02/00/1865 - Served, Gen. Hospital #9 (Receiving and Way), Richmond, VA
05/01/1865 - Surrendered to the U.S. Army & took Amnesty Oath [Residence: 5th St., between Franklin St. and Grace St., Richmond, VA]
1867 - Practiced Medicine, Fredericksburg, VA
1868 - Practiced medicine, Savannah, Chatham Co., GA
08/09/1870 - Practiced medicine, Savannah, Chatham Co., GA (lived with wife, Lucy E., and one child - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as "S. Brochie Herndon")
1874,1878 - Practiced medicine, Savannah, Chatham Co., GA
04/05/1878 - Wife, Lucy, died (buried: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham Co., GA - FindAGrave # 75887242)
1886 - Practiced medicine, Savannah, Chatham Co., GA
08/07/1886 - Died after being "stricken with a critical illness" while visiting one of his sons, Washington, DC (Buried, Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham Co., GA

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
06/25/2012. Updated 12/29/2018.
Unpublished database.