About: John Bernadou

John Baptiste Bernadou was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bernadou graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880. He was promoted ten numbers for gallantry in action while commanding Winslow at the Battle of Cárdenas, Cuba, on 11 May 1898. John Baptiste Bernadou died at the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on 2 October 1908 and is buried with his wife Florence Whiting in Arlington National Cemetery Section S.