February 23
1865
(Thursday) Virginia, General Grant protested to Secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton against give a new command to Major General B.F. Butler. Grant also wrote to Secretary of State Seward regarding reliable information that a warship it to be delivered to the Confederacy has been indefinitely detained at either Ferrol, Spain or Lisbon, Portugal..
1879
(Sunday) India, The Grant party stopped at Allahabad for refreshments and continued on to Agra where they visited the Taj Mahal.
1880
(Monday) Mexico, General and Mrs. Grant, accompanied by Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan arrived in Mexico City. That afternoon they met Mexican President Porfirio Diaz and dined in the evening at the Presidential Palace.
