GDG- Last Living Gettysburg Combatant Was...?

[John Zervas]

Issue 16 (1997) of Gettyusburg Magazine has an article entitled "Gettysburg's Last Surviving Soldier: James Marion Lurvey December 2, 1847-September 17, 1950.

14 years old at the time of the battle, he was a drummer boy who served in the medical corp.

The article states he was  orginally part of the 40th Mass, company A.  He was a Cambell Hospital and  "While temporarily with Companies 5 1nd 11 of the  'Invalid Corps" was released and ordered north to Pennsylvania."