{"id":1626,"date":"2011-05-25T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2014-08-15T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T19:58:39","slug":"jones-virgil-pat-carrington-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"JONES, VIRGIL (PAT) CARRINGTON, 1906-1999."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist. Born&#8211; June 7, 1906, Charlottesville, Va. Parents&#8211; Alonzo Lewis and Virginia (Graves) Jones. Married&#8211; Geneva Carolyn Peyton, 1934. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1924-1926; Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1930. City editor, Huntsville (Ala.) Times, 1931-1937; reporter, Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va., 1937-1941; reporter, Evening Star, Washington, D.C., 1941-1945; staff writer, Washington, Wall Street Journal, 1943-1945; office manager, Curtis Publishing Co., Washington, 1945-1961; administrative assistant to Congressman William M. Tuck of Virginia, 1963-69; staff writer, NASA Activities, 1969-76. Member; National Press Club; Masons; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Delta Chi. District of Columbia Civil War Round Table gold medal for meritorious writing. Used the pseudonym, Pat Jones, for some writing.\u00a0 Died November 29, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birth of Liberty. New York; Holt, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil War at Sea. New York; Holt, 1960-1962.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Hours Before Richmond. New York; Holt, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders. New York; Holt, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>The Hatfields and the McCoys. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>100 Years After. Washington, D.C.; Bicentennial Commission, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Ranger Mosby. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Roosevelt&#8217;s Rough Riders. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The Story of Mooresville. Decatur, Ala.; North Alabama Historical Association, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>True Tales of Old Madison County (Alabama); &#8230;. Huntsville, Ala.; Johnson Historical Publications, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>U.S.S. Cairo; the Story of a Civil War Gunboat, &#8230;. Washington, D.C.; National Park Service, 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist. Born&#8211; June 7, 1906, Charlottesville, Va. Parents&#8211; Alonzo Lewis and Virginia (Graves) Jones. Married&#8211; Geneva Carolyn Peyton, 1934. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1924-1926; Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1930. City editor, Huntsville (Ala.) Times, 1931-1937; reporter, Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va., 1937-1941; reporter, Evening Star, Washington, D.C., 1941-1945; staff writer, Washington, Wall Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}