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I suppose a battlefield is typically masculine! But Shiloh sounds so close to Sheila, and in that Neil Diamond song (OK, he spells it Shilo) the reference is to the persona's imaginary friend from childhood; after an unsuccessful relationship with a real woman, he conforts himself with the memory of Shiloh ... which seems to indicate that she was a she.

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Apart from the song, I've never encountered it as a human name, male or female. I'm slowly warming up to Sheila, though.