article_snippet: Artifacts from The iron clad ship will be studied by researchers from Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory, with hopes that many will eventually be displayed in museums.
article_snippet: Thousands are artifacts from the 1860s are expected to be found, including artillery shells, four cannons, two engines and a propeller, according to CNN.
article_snippet: While iron items have survived long years and are in various states of corrosion, wooden bits of the ship wreckage have largely deteriorated.
article_snippet: Researchers hope that personal items such as this ironstone pottery will help illuminate what life aboard the ship wreckage was like for soldiers .
article_snippet: Conservators are hoping the remaining bits of ship and personal items will help tell about what life aboard the ship wreckage was like for crew.
article_snippet: Mr Jobling says that beyond written descriptions of the Civil War, the actual artifacts 'really brings it home' and help students of the period piece together day-to-day life.
article_snippet: Though many iron items remain, pieces of wood (pictured) are either entirely or mostly deteriorated from years underwater .