Editing P. G. T. Beauregard (section)

====Confederate battle flag design====
[[File:Confederate Battle Flag (draft design).png|thumb|upright=1|Beauregard's original design of the [[Modern display of the Confederate battle flag|Confederate battle flag]] {{flag|CSA|1861}}]]

After Bull Run, Beauregard advocated the use of a standardized battle flag other than the [[Flags of the Confederate States of America|"Stars and Bars"]] Confederate national flag to avoid visual confusion with the [[U.S. flag]].<ref>Gevinson, Alan. "[http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/19424 The Reason Behind the 'Stars and Bars']" ({{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330172120/http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/19424 |date=March 30, 2012 }}). {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120425052144/http://www.teachighistory.org/ Teachinghistory.org]}} (), accessed October 8, 2011.</ref> He worked with Johnston and [[William Porcher Miles]] to create the Confederate Battle Flag. Women visiting Beauregard's army contributed silk material from their dresses to create the first three flags, for Beauregard, Johnston, and [[Earl Van Dorn]]; thus, the first flags contained more feminine pink than martial red.<ref>Williams, pp. 109–110; Hattaway & Taylor, p. 23.</ref> However, the official battle flag had a red background with white stars.<ref>Williams, p. 109</ref> Throughout his career, Beauregard worked to have the flag adopted, and he helped to make it the most popular symbol of the Confederacy.<ref>Coski, p. 9.</ref>

As the Army went into winter quarters, Beauregard caused considerable friction with the Confederate high command. He strongly advocated an invasion of [[Maryland]] to threaten the flank and rear of Washington. With his plan rebuffed as impractical, he requested reassignment to New Orleans, which he assumed would be under Union attack in the near future, but his request was denied. He quarreled with Commissary General [[Lucius B. Northrop]] (a personal friend of Davis) about the inadequate supplies available to his army. He issued public statements challenging the ability of the Confederate [[Confederate States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] to give commands to a full general. And he enraged President Davis when his report about Bull Run was printed in the newspaper, which suggested that Davis's interference with Beauregard's plans prevented the pursuit and full destruction of McDowell's army and the capture of Washington.<ref>Williams, pp. 96–112; Woodworth, pp. 76–77; Hattaway & Taylor, p. 23.</ref>