Suggested reading on this topic --

"'A Very Disagreeable Business': Confederate Conscription in Louisiana,"
John M. Sacher, Civil War History, Vol. 53, 2007.

West of the Mississippi, camps were established north and south of the Red River. These were initially sited at Monroe under Brig. Gen. Albert G. Blanchard, the other being at Camp Pratt near New Iberia. See OR vol. XV, pp. 740, 760 and 919.