Father: Robert Westmoreland
Mother: Anna Louise Foreman
- Attended, Fayetteville Academy, Fayette Co, Georgia
1843 - M.D. degree, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
1843 - Practiced medicine, Pike Co, GA
01/14/1847 - Married, Louise M. Green Buchanan, Pike Co, GA (she died in 1850)
1850 - Practiced medicine, Pike Co, GA
1854 - Helped found Atlanta Medical College and served as dean. [Atlanta Medical College merged with other medical schools to eventually become the Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA]
1884 - Helped found the Brotherhood of Physicians [later, the Atlanta Medical Society]
1855 - Member, House of Representatives, Georgia State Legislature [It is claimed by some that he ran for this position to obtain money from the state of Georgia for the Atlanta Medical College]
1860 - Practiced medicine, Atlanta, GA
07/19/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
07/19/1861 - Ordered to report to the commanding officer, Williamsburg, VA, for hospital duty
09/15/1861 - Surgeon-in-charge, College Hospital, Williamsburg, VA
02/19/1862 - Surgeon, College Hospital, Williamsburg, VA
05/12/1862 - Surgeon, Bottoms Bridge, New Kent Co, VA
05/13/1862 - Surgeon, near the Chickahominy River, VA
05/27/1862 - "Surgeon J. G. Westmoreland will report to Surgeon J. L. Cabell for hospital duty at Danville, Va." [S.O. 121/19]
06/22/1862 - Surgeon-in-charge, Keen Hospital (Hosp. No. 6), Richmond, VA
06/23/1862 - Ordered to report to Gen. Hospital, Danville, VA [S.O. 144]
07/17/1862 - Tendered his resignation
07/30/1862 - Ordered to transfer from Gen. Hospital, Danville, VA to Gen. Hosp. No. 1, Lynchburg, VA, by Surgeon T. H. Williams, but instead, "proceeded to Richmond and resigned"
08/02/1862 - Resigned from the Confederate States Army because of "the condition of my family and important matters connected with
their welfare . . . and the state of my health"
1874 - Member, Medical Association of Georgia
1874,1880 - Practiced medicine, Atlanta, GA
1884 - With his brother, Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland, founded the Atlanta Medical & Surgical Journal
1886 - Practiced medicine, 55 1/2 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA
03/03/1887 - Died, Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA

Significant input was provided by Robert Krick.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
06/01/2013. Unpublished database.