A "secret" message, unseen for almost 150 years and making the start of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), has been uncovered in Abraham Lincoln's gold pocket watch, U.S. media reported on Wednesday.

"Lincoln never knew of the message he carried in his pocket," Brent D. Glass, director of the National Museum of American History said in a statement.

The message, which was engraved by an Irish immigrant and watchmaker named Jonathan Dillon, is dated April 13, 1861, and reads in part: "Fort Sumpter [sic] was attacked by the rebels" and "thank God we have a government."

"It's a personal side of history about an ordinary watchman being inspired to record something for posterity," Glass said.

The museum decided to open the watch after being contacted by the watchmaker's great-great-grandson, Doug Stiles, who had received a letter from a relative in Ireland. It said that the family had found a letter Dillon had written about the purported (據(jù)說的) message in the watch.

Then Stiles, a 57 -year-old real estate lawyer in Waukegan, Illinois, searched on the Internet and found a New York Times article from 1906, where Dillon told the story at the age of 84.

During the interview, Dillon said that he unscrewed the dial of the watch and wrote on the metal as soon as he heard the news about the first shot of the Civil War. "The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at least will try."

However, the actual message that the museum found is different from what Dillon recalled. It reads, "Jonathan Dillon, April 13－1861, Fort Sumpter [sic] was attacked by the rebels on the above date J Dillon, April 13 -1861, Washington, thank God we have a government, Jonth Dillon."

 

61．Who wrote the message in Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch?

A．Lincoln himself．                                B．Brent D．Glass．

C．Jonathan Dillon．                                D．Doug Stiles.

62．The message was about ________.

A．the start of the U.S．Civil War              B．Abraham Lincoln's daily life

C．the slavery in the U.S．                        D．the ending of the U.S．Civil War

63．Doug Stiles first knew about the message from _________.

A．a(chǎn) relative in Ireland                              B．a(chǎn) report of New York Times

C．the Internet                                        D．Brent D．Glass

64．The underlined word "posterity" in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to "________".

A．historical research                                B．entertainment

C．his children                                         D．friendship

65．Which of the following can be inferred from the message?

A．Jonathan Dillon was sure of the victory of the government.

B．Jonathan Dillon lost all hopes about the government.

C．Jonathan Dillon thought that rebels would beat the government.

D．Jonathan Dillon believed that slavery would be abolished.

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