Navy sailcloth hammock measuring 5'10" in length, 39" in width, w/twelve 18" ropes to steel 3" hammock ring on each end. "Henry L. Peck" painted on hammock in 1.75" red & black lettering 18" in width. Hammock outer stitching & blue line sailcloth stitching tight, as are its eyelets. Original sling ropes & rings in good condition. Hammock lightly stained w/four or five small reddish spots a foot below owner's name. Else VG.

Henry L. Peck enlisted as a corporal and was mustered into Co. "G", 7th Connecticut Infy. on 9/7/1861. He was promoted to sergeant in 1862, and then reduced to ranks at his own request on 2/19/1863. He was mustered out as a private on 9/12/1864. The 7th Connecticut served in the southeastern theater and participated in innumerable battles in the Carolinas and southeast Virginia, including Ft. Pulaski, Secessionville, Morris Island. Drewry's Bluff and the Siege of Petersburg. During its service the unit lost 168 men killed and mortally wounded and 192 men by disease for a total of 364.

Peck enlisted in the US Navy in 1873 and served as Captain's clerk aboard the USS Vermont [1873-75]and the USS Tennessee [1875-77]. The Vermont was a sailing ship that by the 1870s had converted into a storage ship in New York harbor; the Tennessee was a modern steam-screw sailing ship that as flagship of the US Asiastic squadron. Peck mustered out of the Navy in October 1877, taking his hammock with him.

Fascinating naval gear belonging to a soldier of the fighting 7th Connecticut Infantry. Military records included.

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