Bendall attended the University of Virginia after leaving R-MC. He was a schoolteacher in Sussex County, VA in 1860, when he enlisted as a corporal in Co. E of the 16th VA Infantry on April 27, 1861. He transferred as a private to Co. G of the 5th VA Cavalry on September 14, 1861 after providing a substitute to the 16th VA Infantry. This cavalry company later became Co. A of the 13th VA Cavalry. Bendall surrendered on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.
After the war, he was a grocer in Dinwiddie County, VA in 1870. By 1881, he was a partner in Bendall Brothers, a leaf tobacco firm in Danville, VA, and he remained in the tobacco business until at least the mid-1890s. In the 1900 census, he was a farmer in Pittsylvania County, VA. He died July 4, 1904 and is buried in Green Hill Cemetery in Danville, VA.
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