Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch, and Masculinity in the Crimean War

Chapter 3, "Children of the Regiment," explores another form of rescue in the surprisingly popular motif of battlefield adoption-still prominent in the late-Victorian works ofJohn Strange Winter-in which the tenderness of outwardly hardened soldiers brings military and domestic spheres into close alignment. [...]perhaps most arrestingly, Furneaux recovers the labors of military orderlies who, she argues, have been largely erased from accounts of the Crimea. [...]they performed the bulk of military caregiving and were frequently singled out for praise even by their female supervisors.