This was published today in Internet Genealogy's Research Tips & More Vol 9 #9:
Check the State Federal Soldiers’ Home (St. James, MO) Inmate Register. With the link from the Missouri Digital Heritage website, search the records in “View the Collection” and enter a name in the Advanced Search Box. Missouri Veterans Home (St. James) Inmate Registers (mo.gov). Information “may include name, admission date and number, friends or near kin, service record, date and place of birth, age on admission, amount of pension, nature of disability, occupation, marital status, literacy, church and lodge memberships. Additional remarks may also include biographical data, limited family history, addresses of relatives, date of death, and place of burial.”
By Lynn Cassity, Internet Genealogy author