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- catalog description """Rooney" Lee earned a reputation for bravery and effective command as he led the 9th Virginia Cavalry at Chancellorsville. Wounded again at Brandy Station, he was shortly thereafter captured by Federal raiders and imprisoned. Late in the war, he was exchanged and promoted to the rank of major general - the youngest man in the Confederacy to hold this rank. By the war's end, he was one of the highest-ranking cavalry commanders in the Confederate army."".