President transmits to Senate treaty with Kansas tribe of Indians. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, [16] May 1862, CW, 5:218-19.

Orders that his thanks for capture of Norfolk be sent to Gen. Wool by War Dept. N.Y. Tribune, 17 May 1862.

Confers with Gen. Charles S. Hamilton recently relieved of command by Gen. McClellan, for reason that he is "not fit to command a Division." N.Y. Tribune, 17 May 1862; Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, 21 May 1862, CW, 5:227.