Blakeley State Park Blog

(An Alphabet poem called an abecedarian.) By Sue Brannan Walker, former Poet Laureate of Alabama

Dear President Harding: General Edward R.S. Canby was in command of the Federal Army when the Confederates' last stand in the War Between the States resulted in surrender.

On the ninth of April, sixty-five, Long remember’d be the day, In range of Blakeley’s batteries General Canby’s forces lay; They had waded sloughs and marshes, Been exposed to winds and rain, Marched o’er concealed torpedoes This proximity to gain.