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Fredericksburg, to the number of fourteen thousand. This is probably a portion, if not the whole, of the force alluded to in the first part of this dispatch, as being within six miles of Fredericksburg. The Illinois troops in the Federal army. The Chicago Tribune says: The volunteer regiments of Illinois, embracing at first some 70,000 names, have sustained a loss of at least 10,000 in killed or disabled since recruiting was stopped. Adjutant-General Fuller, in his report to Gov. Yates last December, showed that while very few of our regiments had a maximum number, many more fell below the minimum, and that the average of all would not, at that time, exceed $80 men to a regiment. Since December the Illinois volunteers have seen their hardest service, at Pittsburg Landing, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, &c; and their previous deficiencies not having been made up, (under an order of the War Department to cause recruiting.) it now becomes a serious question what shall be done.