North Valand Battle Anthem

The North Valand Battle Anthem was a song sung by soldiers of the Army of North Valand, an pro-Confederate army from the small nation of North Valand, originally a Unionist nation which seceded from the Republic of Valand in early 21 BBY after Valand joined the Confederate States of Earth.

This decision was unpopular with much of the North Valandan population, especially in the south, which bordered the rest of Valand, where there were many Confederate sympathisers who viewed the secession from North Valand as treason against their mother nation.

One such Confederate sympathiser was Oliver Irton, brother of Henry Irton, North Valand's first President, a Unionist. Oliver Irton was highly supportive of President Jane Zarkan's Confederacy, and was determined to see his home withdraw from the Union and either rejoin the rest of Valand or join the Confederacy as an independent state.

Oliver Irton headed to Zarkan City, in the Zarkan Kingdom, the capital city of the Confederacy, and met with Jane Zarkan, where he fell to his knees and declared his subservience to her and his loyalty to her cause. Moved by his show of devotion to her, Jane happily accepted him as one of her servants.

Together Oliver and Jane conspired to remove Henry Irton's Unionist government and make Oliver Irton the new President, following which North Valand would join the Confederacy, giving the Confederacy a springboard for invading the northern region of the Union's heartland.

After rallying fellow pro-Confederate North Valandans under the North Valand Patriotic League Oliver transformed his party into the Provisional Government of the Independent State of North Valand, in order to his claim of being the true President of North Valand more legitimacy, the PGISNV also united most Confederate militias in North Valand into the Army of North Valand.

During the North Valand Campaign the Confederate forces smashed through North Valand's small standing army and reached the capital of Fort Irton, Henry Irton sent numerous requests for reinforcements to the Union, however the Union sent only a small amount, due to being preoccupied with a large Confederate offencive in the south.

The Confederates took Fort Irton and Henry Irton was forced to flee to Union territory, along with most pro-Union North Valandans. Oliver Irton was made the President and the PGISNV was transformed into the new pro-Confederate Senate of North Valand, and North Valand joined the Confederacy as the 94th, and penultimate, nation.

Lyrics
The lyrics sing of the soldiers of the Army of North Valand, the pro-Confederate professional army of North Valand, who had gone to fight for the Confederacy as part of Oliver Irton's Provisional Government of the Independent State of North Valand, the song refers to Henry Irton, the first President of North Valand who declared North Valand's secession from the rest of the Republic of Valand, as a traitor.

In the year of '01, we left our native land, Cause we could not bend our spirits to a traitor's damned command. And we rallied to our Oliver, while our hearts were sad and sore, To offer our blood for freedom as our fathers did before. ''And we'll march! march! march!'' To the music of the drum, We were driven forth in exile, From our old North Valand home. When at first the Confederate flag unfurled her folds upon the air, Her stars had hardly gathered 'til North Valand's sons were there. And we swore a solemn oath and sternly gathered round We would only live as freemen in our dark and bloody ground. ''And we'll march! march! march!'' To the music of the drum, We were driven forth in exile, From our old North Valand home. ''With Oliver as our leader and Benson in the van, We will plant the flag of freedom in our small, yet happy, land, We will drive the traitor's minions to Northland's lofty peaks, And we will dye her mountains crimson with coward Union blood. ''And we'll march! march! march!'' To the music of the drum, We were driven forth in exile, From our old North Valand home Then cheer you Confederate boys, you soon shall see the day, When North Valand's fairest daughters will cheer you on your way, And then their proud old mothers will welcome one and all, For Confederated we stand, but Unionist we will fall! ''And we'll march! march! march!'' To the music of the drum, We were driven forth in exile, From our old North Valand home.