"Dragooning civilians" Topic

I'm just curious, I have a few questions.
When civilians were dragooned into service were they bound when first captured?
How far did the dragoons transport them?
How did they keep people coerced this way from returning home?

Thank you looking and any replies in advance. =)

Forcibly conscripting civilians didn't work very well for land forces; hence the need for hussars, dragoons, provosts, etc. Press ganging civilians for the navy worked better!

I am not sure this happened very much in the way you describe. Civilians were pressed into service sometimes, the trickery and outright kidnap employed by Frederick the Great's recruiting officers are a good example of this, but I don't think the work was specific to dragoons as such. Impressment was obviously unpopular with its victims, and consequently desertion from the Prussian service was rife, though men who joined voluntarily deserted frequently too.

You may be thinking of dragoons, because of the "Dragonnades" when Louis XIV billeted unruly dragoons deliberately on Huguenot families in order to coerce them into conversion by making their lives difficult. I think this is where the English phrase "to dragoon" comes from. I may be wrong and it be that dragoons specifically were used for the purpose you mention, I'd be interested to hear what others think.
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