Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson and Twenty Great Battles

New York: A.R. Hart & Co., Publishers, 1886. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules. 435pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, floral endpapers. Very good. Faint binding wear only -- super tight and internally fine, with giltstamping a-gleaming. A handsome first edition of this Civil War fiction sometimes attributed to John McElroy simply because it was first serialized between October-July 1885 in the newspaper he edited, the "National Tribune" of Washington, DC. Intriguing evidence that supports (but doesn't prove) this comes with this copy in the form of a laid-in heavy stock light red 5½" X 3¼" printed card. Recto titled "For $50 a Month" and consists of a "Personal to My Comrades" plea urging that Congress pass a "$50 a month pension for all honorably discharged veterans of the Union Army who served 90 days or more... the merest justice and recognition from the Government to the aged and deserving men who in their youth saved its existence at the greatest sacrifice to themselves...." Signed (in type) "John McElroy." Verso contains another printed statement, signed (in type) "The National Tribune," requesting "your $5 NOW" because "War work has taken many National Tribune employees. We cannot compete with the Government in wages and maintain the old subscription price. We must install new machinery. Help us by sending your subscription for a five-year period...." Did this card come laid into each copy of this Civil War-theme novel?