A hidden message has been found inside President Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. He had purchased this gold watch during the 1850s in Springfield, Ill. On the day the Civil War started, this watch was in the hands of a Washington D.C. watchmaker named Jonathan Dillon for repairs. Without the president knowing, on hearing news of the Civil War he etched inside the watch the date April 13, 1861, his name and a message about the war's first guns firing, the end of slavery and the good president.

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