Site of Camp Pratt

Camp Pratt followed the Confederate conscription act of April 16, 1862, which drafted white men from 18 to 35 and extended volunteers' enlistments to three years. The camp sat on Lake Tasse, now Spanish Lake, and held as many as 3,000 draftees, as well as a few prisoners. Sickness killed many men in both groups. When General Taylor fell back from Fort Bisland in 1863, Union troops took the camp and surrounded Colonel Bagley's regiment, capturing about 100 men.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 4.5 mi
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 5.6 mi
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• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 5.6 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 6.6 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.

More markers nearby

• Queen Mother Moore - African Liberation Leader — 3.8 mi
• The Episcopal Church Of The Epiphany — 4.1 mi
• A Walk of Faith — 4.1 mi
• Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Bouligny — 4.3 mi