Usage Date: April, 21, [1865]
Usage Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Recipient: Lieutenant Albert Steiger
Theodore Albert Steiger was born January 17, 1844 in Baden, Germany. He enlisted in the 75th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company K, on October 1, 1862 and was mustered out September 1, 1865.
In a recorded incident at Gettysburg, "Col. Mahler was crippled in the thick of the fight by the fall of his horse, which had been shot, but he remained a conspicuous figure in the encouragement of his line, receiving a mortal wound at the moment when the 75th, outflanked, began to fall back. At this instant Lieut. T. Albert Steiger, in command of Companies I and K, ran to his assistance and, despite the imminent danger of death or capture, brought him, with great difficulty from the field. Col. Mahler died on the morning of July 4th at the field hospital of the Eleventh Corps."
According to his obituary, he was also wounded and spent time in Andersonville prison.
Albert Steiger died in Philadelphia in 1921.