07/29/1832 - Born, Richmond, VA [Father: Dr. John Cullen (1797-1849) - "a Dublin man and a founder of the Medical College of Virginia"; Mother: Charlotte Eliza Howard]     

12/25/1849 - Father, John, died in Richmond, VA (buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA; FindaGrave #6191794)               

1850-1851 - Attended the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

1853 - M.D. - Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA

1853-1854 - Post graduate work in Philadelphia, PA, hospitals          

1855 - Continued medical studies in Europe

1856 - Married Jane Mary "Jenny" Maben, daughter of John Maben, Esq., Richmond, VA

1858 - Practiced medicine with Dr. Charles Bell Gibson, Richmond, VA

07/26/1860 - Practiced medicine, 2nd Ward, Richmond, VA (lived with wife, Jane, and one child - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as John D. Cullen) [Note: At this time, Dr. Cullen had a joint medical practice withDr. Charles Bell Gibson.]

05/02/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States

05/03/1861 - Surgeon, 1st Regt VA Volunteers

- Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Manassas, VA

07/01/1861 - Surgeon, 1st VA Infantry

00/00/1862 - Chief Surgeon, staff of Gen J. E. Johnston, Department of the Potomac

06/00/1862 - Acting Medical Director, staff of Gen. R. E. Lee, Army of Northern Virginia

03/17/1863 - Relieved as Medical Director of General Hospitals, Richmond, Virginia, and ordered to report to Gen. Longstreet [S.O. 65]

04/04/1863 - Appointment as Surgeon confirmed by the Confederate Senate

07/00/1863 - Medical Director, Gen. J. Longstreet's Corps

04/09/1865 - As Surgeon and Medical Director, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, paroled by the U.S. Army, Appomattox, VA

1868 - Elected, Professor of Diseases of Women and Children, Medical College of Virginia

08/04/1870 - Practiced medicine, Madison Ward, Richmond, Henrico Co., VA (lived with wife, "G. Mary" and five children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as "G. S. D. Cullen")

1871 - Editor, Virginia Clinical Record, a monthly journal of medicine, surgery, and the collateral sciences

1874 - Practiced medicine, Richmond, Henrico Co., VA

05/20/1874 - Co-founder, Association of Medical Officers of the Confederate Army and Navy, Atlanta, GA

06/08/1880 - Practiced medicine, Richmond, Henrico Co., VA (lived with wife, Jennie, and five children - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as J. S. D. Cullen)

1883 - Practiced medicine, Richmond, Henrico Co., VA

1883 - Member, Virginia State Medical Association

1883 - Member, Richmond Academy of Medicine

1883 - Professor of Surgery, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA

1883 - Surgeon, Richmond City Hospital, Richmond, VA

1885 - Assumed the Chair, Professor of Surgery, Medical College of Virginia

1886 - Chosen as Dean of Faculty, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA

1890 - Practiced medicine, 412 E. Grace St., Richmond, VA

1890 - Dean of Faculty, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA

 - President of the Richmond Academy of Medicine

 - Member, Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association

03/22/1893 - Died of chronic nephritis, Richmond, VA (buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA; FindaGrave #5605802)

03/23/1924 - Widow, Jenny, died in Richmond, Henrico Co., VA (buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA; FindaGrave #5293851)

Paula Lucy Delosh provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:

Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical

register of physicians who served the

Confederacy in a medical capacity.

07/03/2003. Updated 04/22/2014.

Unpublished database.