Grand Secession March

Grand Secession March'' was a piece of instrumental music composed by Adam Edwin Blackwood, who would go on to be a highly successful and regarded composer of the Confederate States of Earth, in late 22 BBY in order to celebrate the Zarkan Secession Convention, a convention held by the politicians and representatives of the Zarkan Kingdom in order to discuss the secession of the nation from the Union of Earth States in the wake of the passing of the Western States Expulsion Act.

A. E. Blackwood was a fervent Traditionalist and Secessionist who had long opposed the Union's policies and desired the secession of the Western conservative nations from it. He was strongly in support of Jane Zarkan, the Queen of the Zarkan Kingdom, who would become the President of the Confederate States of Earth, who believed that following the election of the Federalist Rich Williams secession was the only true way to prevent Williams' corrupting influence on the Traditionalist nations.

The march was included in the First Edition of the patriotic songbook titled Patriotic Songs and Anthems of Confederate Earth, the piece also inspired another notable Confederate composer and songwriter, Michael Yarwood, OCM, the "Songsmith of the Confederacy", to write a piece titled the Secession Grand March, which was his first Confederate music piece, and his first true success.