Read the passage: In the mean time, though, Linwood is in danger. This dear place, my second home; its loved inhabitants; think of their being in such peril! Oh, I shall cry heartily if harm comes to them! But I must leave before. No use of leaving my bones for the Yankees to pick; better sing "Dixie" in Georgia. What is revealed about the author's viewpoint? She welcomes the Union soldiers to her hometown. She is angered by the arrival of Union soldiers in her Confederate state. She does not care for Northerners. She is an abolitionist.