March 11 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1824, the U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1845, John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, died in Allen County, Ind. In 1861, in Montgomery, Ala., delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas adopted the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America. In 1918, the first cases of Spanish influenza were reported in the United States. By 1920, the virus had