Any ideas on how to start off an informational essay about the civil war or an idea for a hook?

Ask a question in the beginning of your essay. for example, did you know that...? and then say an interesting fact

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.