Of the 110 Black soldiers that were convicted,19 of whom were executed after being found guilty of murder, mutiny, and assault following a riot in Houston.
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It was, as the Washington Post reports, "the largest mass execution carried out in the history of the US Army." On Dec. 11, 1917, 13 Buffalo Soldiers were hanged.