Bill > HR1232

This bill, the Fort Pillow National Battlefield Park Study Act, directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of Fort Pillow Historic State Park in Tennessee. The study will evaluate the site's national significance and determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. The bill provides historical context, noting that Fort Pillow was the site of a notorious massacre during the Civil War, where Confederate forces killed hundreds of Union troops, including many U.S. Colored Troops, in a brutal attack that had a profound impact on the course of the war.