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.
On the other side of the Keystone State, the University of Pittsburgh is another one of Pennsylvaniaâs best research universities. In fact, the Academic Performance Research Laboratory ranked Pitt 16th nationally and 7th among public universities. Still, Pitt is more than a research school.