Browncoat

A Browncoat is a member of the Independent Faction, an Independent veteran. Adopted early in the war by the Independent Faction, a brown coat has become indelibly linked to supports of the Independents' cause. After the war's end, clothiers made good money dyeing brown coats blue or gray as folks wanted to forget the past and let the past forget them. Those that still 'wear the brown' do it on purpose.