Bevin Alexander graduated from The Citadel in 1949. During the Korean War he received three battle stars for combat service and commanded the 5th Historical Detachment where he worked as a combat historian, for which he received the Commendation Medal. His work on the Korean War, written during that period, is kept at the National Archives. He has advised the Rand Corporation on future warfare and worked on a war game simulation for the Training and Doctrine Command of the U.S. Army. He has been the director of information at the University of Virginia, as well as editor of their alumni magazine, and is a retired adjunct professor of history at Longwood University. "Lost Victories," his book about Stonewall Jackson, has been cited by the Civil War Book Review as being among the seventeen books that have most changed Civil War scholarship.