I did not have time to list sources in my previous post and will take time now to list them. I have also come across another business partnership of Thompson Greenfield. I could not locate a photograph.
Thompson Greenfield was a partner in a firm doing business in Clarksville, Tenn. under the name of Galbraith, Cromwell, & Co., and in New Orleans, La. under the name of Galbraith, Logan, & Co.. They were commission merchants. The partners were Alexander Hawkins Cromwell, Logan, Robert W. Galbraith, and Thompson Greenfield. Cromwell and Logan resided in Clarksville, Tenn., and Galbraith and Greenfield resided in New Orleans. The firm went bankrupt and was dissolved but I am not certain of the year.
The New Orleans City Directory of 1842 lists Galbraith, Logan, & Co. as commission merchants located at 53 Canal Street.
Galbraith and Greenfield both had previously lived in Clarksville before moving to New Orleans. Robert W. Galbraith died in New Orleans on 8-24-1858 and he has an obit. in the Daily Picayune newspaper. Thompson Greenfield died in New Orleans 1-24-1877 and has an obit. in the Daily Picayune.
Sources:
The Federal Cases Comprising Cases Argued And Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Book 9, Case No. 5187. books.google.com
The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890, edited by Minoa D. Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, Phyllis Smith, and Eleanor Williiams, page 268, page 228, page 225. books.google.com
Thompson Greenfield had a daughter named Jessie Greenfield who was a friend of Nannie Haskins of Clarksville, Tenn.
Picturesque Clarksville, Past and Present, A History of the City of the Hills, by William P. Titus, page 154. This book was published in 1887. archive.org
An index of New Orleans obituaries, the Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index, can be found at the website of the New Orleans Public Library. http://nutrias.org/~nopl/obits/obits.htm
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Later Thompson Greenfield was a partner with Cornelius Fellows and Daniel P. Logan in the firm of Fellows & Co. in New Orleans, Louisiana. They were cotton factors and commission merchants. The partnership expired by limitation in September of 1862.
On August 24, 1874 Thompson Greenfield was living in New York City and filed for bankruptcy. The records of this case provide information about his partnership with Fellows & Co..
In later years Thompson Greenfield was a tobacco broker in New Orleans.
Thompson Greenfield is listed in the New Orleans City Directory of 1851 and no employer was given.
Thompson Greenfield is listed in the New Orleans City Directory of 1861 and his employer is Fellows & Company.
Thompson Greenfield is listed in the New Orleans City Directory of 1875, 1876, and 1877 as a tobacco broker.
Fellows & Co. is listed in the New Orleans City Directory of 1851 and the address is 91 Camp Street.
Fellows & Co. is listed in the New Orleans City Directory of 1861 and the address is 149 Common Street.
Sources:
The Federal Cases Comprising Cases Argued And Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Book 10, Case No. 5771 thru 5775 beginning page 1162. books.google.com
Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
The USGenWeb Archives Project for Orleans Parish, Louisiana. City Directories. http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/directry.htm
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In a database known as the Union Provost Marshals' File of Papers Relating to Individual Civilians, 1861–1867 at NARA, there are numerous letters and documents regarding the property of Thompson Greenfield in New Orleans and his many debts, and there are several references in these letters to Greenfield's loyalty to the Rebellion and his activities during War.
A few quotes from these letters regarding Greenfield:
"There were no more active secessionists, nor any firm who contributed their money more lavishly, or used their influence more zealously in the cause of the rebellion than did Fellows and Co., and each and every individual member of this firm."
"...a registered enemy of the United States..."
"It has recently been ascertained that before that the occupation of the city in May 1862 he was a member of the Southern Independence Association...."
"After taking the oath of allegiance Greenfield was permitted by the military authorities then in control to leave the city. He went to England and established himself in business at Liverpool and was during the last two years of the Rebellion (by report) a commercial agent of the Rebel government and consignee of parties running the blockade."
"Greenfield has been employed as commercial agent at Liverpool, for the last 2 years for the rebel government at a salary of 10000 dollars yearly."
After the capture of New Orleans in 1862 all of Greenfield's property was confiscated by the U. S government but Greenfield had several mortgages on his property and many debts. He had lived extravagantly. Greenfield's creditors came forward to make claims on the property and the military authorities in New Orleans had to make decisions regarding the claims. The letters tell the story. His wife is mentioned several times in these letters and she is always addressed as Mrs. E. L. Greenfield.
This database containing the letters, the Union Provost Marshals' File of Papers Relating to Individual Civilians, 1861–1867, can be found both at Ancestry.com and at Fold3.com.
At Ancestry.com the database is listed as U.S., Union Provost Marshals' Papers, 1861-1867 in the card catalogue. There are 50 images in this database regarding Greenfield and they are images 1310 thru 1316, and then images 1320 thru 1362. Skip images 1317, 1318, and 1319, for they belong to another file.
At Fold3.com the database is listed as Union Citizens File in the Civil War index. There are the same 50 images as found at Ancestry.com.
The original database from whence these images came is known as Union Provost Marshals' File of Papers Relating to Individual Civilians, 1861–1867.