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American Civil War - First fight of armoured ships. The Confederate Merrimac and the Federal Monitor, at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 9, 1862. The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union and the Confederacy, the latter formed by states that had seceded.