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.
This article is about the region. For the core city, see Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh metropolitan area (also called Greater Pittsburgh, Southwestern Pennsylvania or the Pittsburgh Tri-State) is the largest population center in both the Ohio River Valley and Appalachia.he metropolitan area consists of the city of Pittsburgh in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and surrounding counties.