Machine generated contents note: 1.`The company of gentlemen': Thackeray's Military Men of Feeling and Eighteenth-Century Traditions -- 2.Princes of War and of Peace: Secular and Spiritual Redemption in Dickens and Kingsley -- 3.Children of the Regiment: Narratives of Battlefield Adoption -- 4.`Our poor Colonel loved him as if he had been his own son': Family Feeling in the Crimea -- 5.Sharing the Stuff of War: Soldier Art, Textiles, and Tactility -- 6.Reparative Soldiering and its Limits: Cultures of Male Care-Giving.