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What was the secret message they found in Abraham Lincoln’s watch

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In the heat of the moment, watchmaker Jonathan Dillon unscrewed the dial from Lincoln's watch and engraved a message with a sharp tool. In 1906 at the age of 84, he recalled the message to the New York Times: The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead.

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