we're going to show them shiloh football and who we are! >> narrator: his parents rent an apartment in arkansas so sam can be eligible to play for the saints. >> they think they own it. this is our house. ( cheers and applause ) >> narrator: and in 2008, shiloh was able to attract what it needed most to break through to the next level, a true superstar. >> kiehl frazier, now, he's looking to throw. he's in some trouble. now, he escapes. he escapes a second time! >> narrator: kiehl frazier is ranked one of the top five high school quarterbacks in the country. he's a six-foot, three-inch running and passing threat with a strong arm and a sprinter's speed. >> he is going to be a great football player. he may win the heisman one day, his own self. i had some ninth grade students that i teach. they come in there and they were like, "oh, man, kiehl frazier signed my shirt." >> narrator: there was buzz about kiehl frazier long before he ever got to high school, when he played in the pee wee leagues as a ten-year-old in rural arkansas. >> doggone i

. >> shiloh was serving time for sex crimes at the orange county jail in southern california. >> i made exactly 1,000 of these. i had a whole little plastic bag, probably about like that big. it was just filled. >> we met brian crist at the maricopa county jail in phoenix shortly before his conviction on a murder charge. >> origami, that's my getaway. i have a bird that flies and a frog that jumps. the champ. front flip. put him in the olympics, man. >> it's really striking and poignant to see inmates who oftentimes are in for incredibly violent crimes sitting there delicately folding this paper over hours into frogs and elephants and that kind of thing. and it really does seem to calm their nerves and almost transform them. >> nobody had a menagerie to match that of philip stroud, who was serving three life sentences for murder at the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana. >> basically making origami figures. you've got the lion, you've got the swan, you've got the rabbit, little puppy, dinosaur, flower. my niece, she loves the little goldfish. this is my favorite one because

you heard private shiloh and also james skelton who said there was not a reason to shoot at that timeo signs that these guys were hostile. >> yes, that is true. >> so what do you make of it? do you dismiss the testimony of these other soldiers, that there wasn't a reason to shoot? >> no, the testimony has changed, and to me, they asked if they could shoot, and my son gave the order. >> and he's been put in jail -- he was tried in front of a jury and convicted of murder because he gave the order. he didn't pull the trigger, but he gave the order. do you think that there is something -- that there is an agenda afoot here with respect to this conviction? >> yes, i think it's for political gain. to me it's totally unacceptable. >> how so? why would this be for political gain. it's a jury who tried him. >> i don't understand why, that this is happening, but i know my son, and i would never second-guess him. he did what he had to do. he told me he was do it again if he was in the same situation. he made the comment -- the statement to his soldiers that he would bring them home to his famili

i wanted to know the boys who became the picture of shiloh, the term for carlson. i wanted to know that grant required a reputation as a term, but still became a successful general under president. i wanted to know who that boy was and to show readers who you are and how he became was speaking. that i think is not the art of biography and anything that pushes most of us into writing. >> will perhaps come back to that subject broadly. but before we go along, i am in effect asking this of each of you. it never occurred to me to ask before we began. in this particular series, were you invited into the series and masters choose the life, or to the editor may have been great mr. atlas himself, did he say to you, i've always been interested in court? so was it your choice to pick grant or were you given an idea? >> i must confess that charm of her frustration is such that i cannot remember the exact sequence that led to it. he had asked me to write a biography and i had proposed a number of people who interested me, but did not seem to copyright that eminence for him. af

another reason why these positions were so attractive because these were men who are veterans of the shiloh quote and and other battles and was a great opportunity to get a promotion and get an extreme increase in pay. the sergeants pay would be about $17 a month if he were in the artillery and if you got a new officer's position you could get $60 a month so a lot of the officers thought it would be a good job and then there were some who were abolitionists who care very deeply about this issue but there were some who saw it as a great opportunity. so that's the situation and then early june, june 7th. most of the soldiers had not been in the service more than a month. some of them didn't even know where their caps were. this image gives you a very good idea of the nature of the fighting. a lot of times you can't always rely on these because it is a new artist rendering but this is actually a fairly accurate portrayal of what occurred at the bend. was a lot of violent combat, bayonets, muskets and i will just read a passage here that i think will give you a good idea of the nature of the fi