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Secret Message Found in Lincoln’s Watch

Steven | March 11, 2009

National Public Radio reports on a family legend about Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War that turns out to be true!
Watchmaker Jonathan Dillon as an old man told his family that he had been employed at a Washington DC jewelry store in 1861, when the recently-elected President sent his favorite pocket [...]