1. Short title This Act may be cited as Fort Pillow National Battlefield Park Study Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Fort Pillow was originally built by Confederate troops in 1861 and named after General Gideon J. Pillow of Maury County, Tennessee. (2) The battle of Fort Pillow was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. (3) At Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate forces never defeated the Union Navy. Instead, they perpetrated a heinous massacre after violating a flag of truce by advantageously repositioning rebel troops and by looting government buildings and private storefronts surrounding the fort. (4) According to the 1864 Report Fort Pillow Massacre from the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, The officers and men seem to vie with each other in the devilish work