By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the Union army; 93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states. Black soldiers faced discrimination as well as segregation.
List of colleges and universities near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There are 59 colleges within 50 miles of Pittsburgh. Located in Pennsylvania with a population of 305,704, the closest colleges are ranked by distance from Pittsburgh. The nearest college is Bradford School at a distance of 1.5 miles from Pittsburgh center.
The economic centre of the region, Pittsburgh has surprisingly 151 high-rise buildings and 446 bridges; because of hundreds of bridges, the city is also known as 'the City of Bridges'. Secondly, the city has huge steel industry and hence, it has also been given the name 'Steel City'.