| abstract | - Sep'ratist Soldier was the anthem of the Confederate States of Earth Army, the ground forces of the Force for the Restoration of Separatist Earth, the Confederacy Reborn, and the refounded Confederate States of Earth Army. The song was also one of several unofficial national anthems of the Confederate States of Earth, however it was pretty rare for the song to be used as the national anthem, which most commonly was God Bless the Confederacy. The song was also one of the unofficial national anthems of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The song was a variant of the old Confederate States song called Soldier, many of the lyrics stayed the same, but some (especially references to "the South") were modified to fit in with the government which made the song its anthem. Jane Zarkan used the Confederate States of America (which she viewed as an analogy to the CIS), a separatist nation from Earth's history, as a template for her own nation, "borrowing" (in her own words) old Confederate songs and modifying them for her own government's use, even "borrowing" the original "Stars and Bars" flag and modifying it for her own nation by replacing the stars with the CIS flag. Sep'ratist Soldier was, as the name suggests, a song about a soldier in the Confederate States of Earth Army, as he joins up and fights the Republic and the Union of Earth States (later, the Empire and the Earth Empire, during the Earth Rebellion against the Galactic Empire), aside from being the anthem of Confederate Earth's army, it was also popular as a marching song. After Separatist victories in the First and Second Battle of Earth the song was broadcast over Republic communication channels as a show of Earth's defiance, as well as to mock the Republic. The song also became popular in other parts of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, as it was seen as both a patriotic and an "uplifting" song. The Union had their own parody version of the song, known as "Unionist Soldier", the insulting lyrics made the parody very unpopular in the Confederate States, to the point of Confederate citizens violently angry when hearing invading Union armies playing and singing the parody song when marching through their streets. Insulting our army's anthem I see. Can't you Republic fanatics come up with your own rallying songs? Still, I realize that we Confederates do rousing patriotic anthems much better than you Union boys do!—A Confederate citizen to a Union soldiers singing the Union's parody version of Sep'ratist Soldier
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