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January 28, 2021

Today in Texas history
Prospero Bernardi, Italian hero of San Jacinto, arrives in Texas

By Bandera Spirits of Texas

On Jan. 28, 1836, Prospero Bernardi arrived in Texas aboard the schooner Pennsylvania as a member of Capt. Amasa Turner's volunteer company, raised in New Orleans.
Bernardi was born in present-day Italy in 1794 and was a notary by trade. He enlisted in the Texas army on Feb. 13, 1836, and distinguished himself in the battle of San Jacinto. He remained in the army until January or February 1837, when he was medically discharged from John Smith's company at Galveston because of a spinal injury sustained during combat.
Bernardi received a bounty grant and a first-class headright grant for his military service, but both were assigned to other parties. Bernardi's whereabouts by 1838 were unclear. In February of that year, two former fellow soldiers testified that they understood he was deceased.
A bust of the Italian soldier stands in front of the Hall of State at Fair Park, Dallas, to commemorate his participation in the battle of San Jacinto.
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