Read the excerpt from the journal of a georgia plantation owner’s widow.

i hastened back to my frightened servants and told them that they had better hide, and then went back to the gate to claim protection and a guard. but like demons they rush in! my yards are full. . my eighteen fat turkeys, my hens, chickens, and fowls, my young pigs, are shot down in my yard and hunted as if they were rebels themselves. utterly powerless i ran out and appealed to the guard.

what does the excerpt reveal about the northern forces?

they sympathized with southern civilians and treated them with kindness.
they carried out a scorched earth policy as they marched through georgia.
they liberated enslaved workers as they marched through georgia.
they were tired of the civil war and wanted it to be over.