Background
Edwin C. Fishel was born on December 19, 1914, in Alliance, Ohio, United States, to Vincent L. Fishel, a lawyer, and Ann J. (Jones) Fishel.
Alliance, Ohio, United States
University of Mount Union
National Security Agency (headquarter)
(Most histories of the Civil War explain victory and defea...)
Most histories of the Civil War explain victory and defeat in terms of the skill of commanders and their troops. Intelligence records disappeared after the war, and thus a critically important element has largely been ignored. Fishel has unearthed substantial collections of such records, and his "intelligence explanation" radically alters history's understanding of the campaigns. The Secret War for the Union is one of the most important Civil War works ever published. Most histories of the Civil War explain victory and defeat in terms of the skill of commanders and their troops. Intelligence records disappeared after the war, and thus a critically important element has largely been ignored. Fishel has unearthed substantial collections of such records, and his "intelligence explanation" radically alters history's understanding of the campaigns. The Secret War for the Union is one of the most important Civil War works ever published.
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1996
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Edwin C. Fishel was born on December 19, 1914, in Alliance, Ohio, United States, to Vincent L. Fishel, a lawyer, and Ann J. (Jones) Fishel.
Fishel attended the Mount Union College (now the University of Mount Union) in 1936.
Fishel was a reporter and assistant city editor of the Alliance Review and a reporter with the Cleveland Press. Fishel worked as a chief intelligence reporter at the National Security Agency. He became a chief of National Cryptologic School Press there, holding that position from 1941 till 1972. During World War II Fishel served at the American Army. Since 1960, he also contributed articles on intelligence history and jazz to periodicals, including the North and South, the Studies in Intelligence, the Civil War History, and the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
Concerning his career of musician, Fishel began working as a pianist and musical arranger with professional Washington area jazz groups in 1968. For 3 years from 1971, he was co-leader and pianist of the Bull Run Blues Blowers jazz band. Since 1974, he was a leader of the Band From Tin Pan Alley.
In 1993, he helped found the National Historical Intelligence Museum in Washington.
(Most histories of the Civil War explain victory and defea...)
1996Fishel was a member of the Cosmos Club and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. He was also a president of the Potomac River Jazz Club.
Fishel married Rosemary Youmans, but the couple divorced in February, 1957. On March 1, 1957 he married a woman named Gladys L. Fishel had 2 children - Reverdy S. and Katherine Horan - and 2 grandchildren.