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The advance of the enemy upon Fredericksburg.[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Fredericksburg, April 21, 1862. A statement appears in the Richmond Dispatch, of the 21st inst., purporting to give an account of the facts attending the advance of the Federal troops upon Fredericksburg, which bour in grave errors, some of which de a speedy and authentic correction. I have therefore determined to place the facts disposed, and leave my name as for this narrative. The article in the affirms, first, that the "civil authorities" of Fredericksburg were unwilling that Confederate troops should make resistance the advance of the Yankees. Secondly, the said authorities prepared terms of surrender" and sent them under a flag of by a committee, of whom "Pelag Clark, Northern man by birth, was chairman." Now, each of these statements iserroneouns, will appear from the following narrative. The report of the advance of the Federal reached Fredericksburg Thursday