Joshua Chamberlain: Hero of Gettysburg, future Politician?

EDIT: Delete or lock please. I made a new one in the right forum.
Joshua Chamberlain was one of the key figures of the battle of Gettysburg, the 20th Maine held the extreme flank of the Union army at Little Round Top and in face of superior forces held their ground and preserved the Union line for the day. Now, Chamberlain was a very brave individual and was wounded something like 5 times throughout the Civil War. He became well-known enough to be made a Brigadier General by the end of the war and was given command of the troops accepting the surrender of one Robert E. Lee.

Now Chamberlain was also an intellectual and taught theology at college before enlisting. He had a number of close calls with death but averted them during the war. After the war he went back to his beloved Maine and ran for Governor and won numerous times. My goal for my first timeline is to get him more involved with politics and onto the national stage. Any ideas on this and maybe does anyone see issues with its plausibility?
 
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:D cool thought! as a Mainer I a lot about Chamberlain, two things stand in the way of his going farther, he was wounded in battle it always hurt him, it killed him in the end, making him last Civil War veteran to die as a result of wounds from the war. the other thing was he's was a home body any way
 
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