Read the excerpt. We burnt everything: pianos, guitars, melodeons, superior household furniture of every kind, a store full of goods, the court house with all the county papers, the jail, the tavern, and about thirty dwellings, some of which cost $10,000, all, all committed to the flames. –Northern soldier, describing the destruction of Prentiss, Mississippi What was the term for the kind of actions this quote describes? emancipation inflation pension loss scorched earth