Section 5. First Sergeant Alexander Kelly Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Alexander Kelly was born April 7, 1840, in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania.
(2) During the Civil War, he enlisted as a substitute in the Union Army and served as a First Sergeant with Company F of the 6th United States Colored Troops.
(3) First Sergeant Kelly was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 29, 1864, during the Battle of Chapin's Farm in Virginia, where he gallantly seized the colors, which had fallen near the enemy's lines of abatis, raised them and rallied the men at a time of confusion and in a place of the greatest danger.
(4) First Sergeant Kelly's actions during the Battle of Chapin's Farm are depicted in the painting titled Three Medals of Honor by American artist Don Troiani.
(5) First Sergeant Kelly was mustered out of the military September 20, 1865, and moved to Pittsburgh.
(6) First Sergeant Kelly died June 19, 1907, at the age of 67 and was interred at Saint Peter's Cemetery in Pittsburgh.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on that portion of Pennsylvania Route 286, known as Washington Street, over the Kiskiminetas River, between Saltsburg Borough, Indiana County, and Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, is designated the First Sergeant Alexander Kelly Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to traffic in both directions on the bridge.