Fort Sam Houston

More than a century ago, 110 Black soldiers were convicted of murder, mutiny and other crimes at three military trials held at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.

On Thursday, several descendants of the soldiers gathered at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery as the Department of Veterans Affairs dedicated new headstones for 17 of the executed servicemen.

He shot himself in his truck on Fort Sam Houston Army base in San Antonio.

He was moved there from Fort Sam Houston, near San Antonio, where he had been undergoing reintegration procedures.

He underwent two months of intensive care before he was transferred to the Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, where surgeons performed 15 operations over a year.