The above title I've plagiarized from Southern Partisan, its pithy, appropriate name for its Civil War book review section.

Some people suffer from the delusion the Civil War's over. Other considerations apart, they haven't checked recent publishers' lists! It's been said a Civil War-related title has appeared at the rate of at least one a day since Lee surrendered in 1865. That's going on 55,000 titles. Better get busy reading! Here are a few of the works lately to come to the attention of Bushwhacker Museum folks.

"Divided Loyalties: The Border States of the Upper South," by Jack T. Hutchinson. Canton Ga., 2005. Published by and available from the author, 305 Woodbrook Crest, Canton GA 30114. 8.5 by one inch, softbound, perfect binding, 366 pp., $29 plus $4 s/h.

A book with a large theme, not just covering the Border states of the Upper South, and covering them not only in the Civil War and after it, but throughout their history. Arranged not only by states but by such categories as geography, race, religion, leaders and politics.

In fact, the historical, physical, and cultural background given for each state makes for the most interesting part of the book. Covering such a wide area occasionally leads the author into small errors of detail, or at least of misplaced emphasis.

And the heavy dependence on statistics, graphs, and charts suggests a formidably academic rather than a would-be popular work, and the sheer rafts of chapter endnotes adds to the same impression.

And it's unfortunate, for the book has much to recommend it. It's thematic, not just telling us what happened but seeking to analyze and explain why it happened.

"Civil War in Kansas," by Roy Bird. Gretna LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 2004. A good introduction to Kansas history in the war. Still, confining the subject to Kansas alone makes for an incomplete story. It can't be cut off at the state line, but should include more about Missouri. And too much space is devoted to the activities of Kansas units far from Kansas, having more to do with the famous eastern battles than with the story of the state itself.

The Secret Danites: Kansas'First Jayhawkers, by Todd Mildfelt. Richmond KS: 2005. Published by and available from the author, 2330 Clark Rd., Box 265, Richmond KS 66080. 8.5 by 5.5 inches, paperback, 130 pages, $15.95.

The more famous "Danites" were the "enforcers" or "secret police" of Brigham Young and the early Mormons.

It turns out there were some other, later Danites, closer to home for us. Covering the period 1856-'59 of the Kansas troubles, this small book brings out hitherto little-known tidbits of information on the secret schemings of the anti-slavery forces and their willingness to use indiscriminate violence to achieve their ends. Included is a new perspective on John Brown's Dec. 20, 1858, raid on Vernon County.

"The Civil War on the Lower Kansas Missouri Border," by Larry E. Wood, Joplin, Mo.: Hickory Press, 2003. Softbound, 260 pages, $17.95.

This expanded edition of a work first published in 2000 fills an important niche in regional Civil War history, giving details of smaller local actions and less attention to the big battles which have been extensively chronicled elsewhere. Each chapter focuses on the actions of a noted individual or a specific county, e.g. one on Col. John T. Coffee, one on Vernon County. Available at the Bushwhacker Museum.

"Cavaliers of the Brush: Quantrill and his Men," Michael E. Banasik, Ed. Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop, P. 0. Box 2232, Iowa City IA 52244.

A well-done, annotated paperback collection of letters from the Houston Telegraph, written during the Civil War, in florid Victorian prose, by "WauCasSie," as he called himself, who interviewed Quantrill's men while they wintered in Texas following their raid on Lawrence, Kan. Recommended.

"The American Civil War: An English View," by Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley. Stackpole Books, 2002. A distinguished British soldier and unabashed Confederate partisan, Wolseley secretly visited the Confederacy in 1862 and published an account of the visit and his meeting with both Lee and Jackson. He called the former "the most perfect human being" he'd ever met. In later life he authored a series of essays commenting on the memoirs of generals on both sides, published as Battles and Leaders.

By then he'd tempered his partisanship, recognized Lincoln as the other great man of the war (besides Lee), and saw the reunion of North and South as the best outcome for both America and the whole Englishspeaking world.

Significantly, Wolseley prophesied that the Armageddon of the future would be a struggle for world domination between America and China.

This is in contrast to Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, who famously predicted it would be between America and Russia.

"A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas," by William Monks, ed. by John F. Bradbury and Lou Wehmer. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. This somewhat misnamed work is largely the story of the author's experiences in the Civil War and afterwards battling the Ku Klux Klan, along the Missouri-Arkansas border in the eastern Ozarks, told from his extremely biased viewpoint as a controversial Radical Republican. By far the best part of the book is the introductory essay by the editors.