Committee hears support for Fort Pillow national battlefield study Members voiced bipartisan support for HR 9 26 to commission a special resource study into whether Fort Pillow should be a National Park Service unit; proponents stressed the site's Civil War history and the need to tell a fuller story for the nation's 250th anniversary.

The push for HR 926 could redefine how we remember the tragic history of Fort Pillow, a site pivotal to Civil War and African American history.

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