Faded Coat of Blue Quotes

“Perhaps the Irish are so rich in the voice because twas the only thing the English could not take from them. It is why the Welsh sing.”
― Owen Parry, Faded Coat of Blue

“Cavalrymen and horses deserve each other.”
― Owen Parry, Faded Coat of Blue

“Perhaps that was what the war was really about. Twas an entire nation of runaways, America in 1861, and your place in society depended on what you had run from and when. Perhaps General McClellan was right that the war was not really about slavery. Perhaps it was a struggle between the dreams of men who would run no more.”
― Owen Parry, Faded Coat of Blue