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Museum finds "secret" message in Lincoln's watch

A gold watch owned by Abraham Lincoln bears a message marking the start of the U.S. Civil War, but the president never knew of the "secret" inscription uncovered on Tuesday at the National Museum of American History.

The museum said it agreed to open the watch to find out if the message really was there after it was contacted by the watchmaker's great-great-grandson, Doug Stiles of Waukegan, Illinois.

The American Civil War began when Confederate troops opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861.

Forty-five years later, Dillon the watchmaker told The New York Times that he was repairing Lincoln's watch when he heard that the first shots of the Civil War had been fired.Dillon said he unscrewed the dial of the watch and used a sharp instrument to mark the historic day on the president's watch. He told the newspaper that, as far as he knew, no one had ever seen the inscription.

博物館學者發現隱藏在林肯手錶內的神秘訊息

亞伯翰‧林肯佩戴的金錶裡隱藏著象徵南北戰爭開端的紀錄，但總統本人卻從來都不知道國家歷史博物館本週二所發現的神秘刻印。

博物館方面在和現今居住在伊利諾州沃基根原製錶商的曾曾曾孫道格‧史提爾聯繫過後，館方已同意拆解金錶查看是否真的有這傳說中的訊息。

西元1861年4月12日，聯邦軍對位在南卡羅萊納州查爾斯頓港的薩姆特堡進行砲轟揭開了美國南北戰爭的序幕。

事隔45年後，製錶商迪倫告訴紐約週刊的記者說當他聽到戰爭開打第一聲炮火的當下，他人正在維修林肯的手錶。根據迪倫的說法，他鬆開了錶盤，然後鑲上一個器械 ，用總統的手錶來紀念這歷史上的一天。他告訴週刊說，就他所知直到目前為止，還沒人看過這個刻印。

(擷選自雅虎新聞)