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?

A. They sympathized with Southern civilians and treated them with kindness.
B. They carried out a scorched earth policy as they marched through Georgia.
C. They liberated enslaved workers as they marched through Georgia.
D. They were tired of the Civil War and wanted it to be over.