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The 2016 United States vice presidential debate was held on the campus of a university located in Farmville, VA.

Which two prominent Confederate officers (one a general, the other a lieutenant colonel) were born on the estate where the home of this university’s president is now located?

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Checked out wikipedia for "Farmville, VA" and found that our general is Joseph E. Johnston. The wikipedia article of his name has the answer:
"Johnston was born at Longwood House in "Cherry Grove", near Farmville, Virginia on February 3, 1807. (Longwood House later burned down. The rebuilt house was the birthplace in 1827 of Charles S. Venable, an officer on the staff of Robert E. Lee, and is now the home of the president of Longwood University.)"
Venable ended as a lieutenant colonel per the wikipedia article of his name.
 
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