Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The Secret Message

Today is the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. On this day, my great-great grandfather Jonathan Dillon was holding Lincoln's watch, fixing it, and he left a secret message inside of it.

Here's the story I wrote about it two years ago:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/the-secret-message/7360/

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