A little six letter word is nothing in comparison to this!
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
That would be the name of a lake. But that name hardly changed history. If you take the first five letters of that name and add an 'e' to the end... you'd get the word that changed it all.
C H A R G E
Yep. 'Charge' changed it all.
You see, it was during the Civil War at the bloodiest of battles. Joshua L. Chamberlian comanding the the 20th Maine Infantry on Little Round Top was key to the battle as he was at the extreme left of the Union line. On July 2, 1863, the second day of fighting, Joshua and his men were exhuasted, and completely out of ammunition. They had even used all the ammunition from the dead and wounded.
The Rebels were ready to hit them yet again and it was evident that Chamberlian and all of his brave men with him would die. Ready and waiting to scatter when Chamberlain called the retrete, all around were shocked to hear him say, after a short moment of thought, "Charge!". However, the men of the 20th Maine quickly shook off their stupor, fixed bayonetes, and charged as commanded!
Many might consider this suicide, and purhaps it could have been, but it wasn't on this hot afternoon of July 2. When the Rebels saw the Union soldiers, whom they thought were out of ammunition and almost out of men, come charging triumphantly down the hill towards them, they only naturally assumed that they had recieved reinforcements at the last minute and ran terrified back the way they had come.
If that one word had not been called out that day, the South most likely would have won the war. That may not sound too significant, but maybe you don't realize that if the South had won, America would not be 'The United States of' America today. In fact there could be as many as five separate countries with, I'm sure, may wars to go along. America would not be the refuge that it is today. There wouldn't in the entire world be a safe place for people to go to. No place that reasures some that there is hope for safety, a place to call home.
. . . Because one man called "CHARGE!''
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