Chronicles of the American Civil War is a two-part series of almost equal number of pages each. These books are revised editions of a six-book collection under the title, The Camden Confederate or The Camden Weekly Confederate of Camden, South Carolina. Those titles are the nameplates of the weekly newspaper from which the text were derived. The news reported in this small-town newspaper are, as nearly as possible, word-for-word as they appeared in each edition of the newspaper.
There is no secret kept of the source of this newspaper. Anyone could have captured these reports the same as this "editor" did. The newspaper pages are in digitized format at the Library of Congress' Chronicaling America. All the editor has done is save the reader sugnificant eye-strain in his attempt to "Capture and Preserve America's History for Future Generations."
Below is the editorial and publishing policies contained in the first week's edition of The Camden Confederate. Those policies were for the most part followed in each weekly edition.