04/19/1830 - Born, Wilson Co., TN (a.k.a., R. P. Sweat)
Father: Edward Sweatt (1786-1854)
Mother: Nancy M. Bradford Tuggle (1798-1879)]
08/22/1850 - Medical student, District 1, Wilson Co., TN (lived with his parents, sibs, and Dr. John C. Eatherly, a physician, who probably served as a preceptor for Robert Pierce Sweatt)
~1850- Attended, Medical Department of the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
01/12/1854 - Father, Edward, died in Waxahachie, Ellis Co., TX (buried: Sweatt Cemetery, Waxahachie, TX; FindAGrave #34230946)
06/30/1860 - Practiced medicine, Division 4, Ellis Co., TX (lived with N. H. Sweatt, a 23 y.o. female)
1861 - Married, Victoria Ann Marchbanks (1845-1874), Ellis Co., TX
05/06/1862 - Mustered in as Pvt., Co. C, 19th TX Cavalry, Confederate States Army
06/24/1862 - Pvt., Co. C., 19th TX Cavalry, Camp Stonewall Jackson, Dallas Co., TX
07/01/1862-11/23/1862 - Pvt., Co. C., 19th TX Cavalry
10/00/1862 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination, Little Rock, AR, for the position of Asst. Surgeon
06/10/1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 12/16/1862
07/26/1863 - Submitted a requisition for 1000 lbs. of Flour, 200 lbs. of Sugar, 20 gallons of Molasses and 5 gallons of Whiskey which are "necessary for the sick of the 12th Texas Dragoons" [Note: The 12th Texas Dragoons was another name for the 12th Texas Cavalry.]
10/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 12th TX Cavalry (Parson's)
11/30/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 12th TX Cavalry (Parson's), District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Dept.
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from TX by the Confederate States Senate
09/14/1864 - In a letter written from Tyler, TX, to Col. S. S. Anderson, Asst. Adjutant General, Shreveport LA, "I have the honor most respectfully to tender my resignation as Assistant Surgeon in the provisional Army of the Confederate States. The annexed certificate of Board of Surgeons explains my utter incapacity to serve longer as an officer. I am respectfully, Yr. obt. Servt, R. P. Sweatt, Asst. Surgeon, P.A.C.S."
"Asst. Surgeon R. P. Sweatt of the conscript service having applied to me for a certificate upon which to ground an application for resignation, We certify that We have carefully examined this officer, and find him to be suffering with a severe form of "Chronic Impeligo [sic - impetigo]" and supervened upon chronic intermittent fever after a severe ptylism [excessive saliva]. It has resisted all remedial measures, and now from the severe excoriation produced by it, renders riding, walking, or any other exertion painful. We further declare our opinion to be that said officer cannot be relieved in any reasonable length of time, & that his resignation should be accepted.
Med. Examining Board
J. F. McGregor, Surgn, P. A. C. S.
T. W. Meagher, Surgn, P. A. C. S.
[Docketing on the back of this letter reads, "Hd Qrs, Trans Miss Dept. Shreveport, La., Sept.28th, 1864, Respectfully forwarded, E. Kirby Smith, Genl. Comdg."]
09/28/1864 - Resignation accepted [S.O. 264/2]
08/24/1870 - Practiced medicine, Waxahachie, Ellis Co., TX (lived with Josephine A Sweatt, a 22 y.o. female, and two children; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as Robert P. Sweatt) [Josephine may have been the wife of R. V. B. Sweatt, one of Dr. R. P. Sweatt's brothers]
07/08/1874 - Wife, Victoria, died in Ellis Co., TX (buried: Waxahachie City Cemetery, Waxahachie, TX: FindAGrave #77104780)
10/31/1875 - Married, Ellen P. Dunlap (1843-1921), Ellis Co., TX
00/00/1879 - Mother, Nancy, died in Waxahachie, Ellis Co., TX TX (buried: Sweatt Cemetery, Waxahachie, TX; FindAGrave #34230966)
1879 - M.D. degree, Texas Medical College and Hospital, Galveston, TX
06/16/1880 - Practiced medicine, Waxahachie, Ellis Co., TX (lived with wife, Ellen, three daughters, and one son; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as R. P. Sweatt)
1887 - Purchased a new Queen Anne style home at 902 W. Main St., Waxahachie, TX [Note: This home is still standing and was valued at over $800,000 in 2022 - not bad for a 135 year old house.]
1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, Waxahachie, Ellis Co., TX
1895,1896 - Practiced medicine with his son, Dr. Osa Pierce Sweatt, at the Lomax Drug Store, Waxahachie, TX
06/05/1900 - Practiced medicine, Ward 3, Waxahachie, Ellis Co., TX (lived with wife, Ellen, two daughters, and one son-in-law; indexed in the 1900 U. S. Census as R. P. Sweatt)
- Member, Main Street Christian Church, Waxahachie, TX
- Free and Accepted Mason
11/21/1902 - Died at his home after an illness of several weeks, Waxahachie, Ellis Co., TX
(buried: Waxahachie City Cemetery, Waxahachie, TX: FindAGrave #96830764)
04/06/1921 - Widow, Ellen, died in Waxahachie, Ellis Co., TX (buried: Waxahachie City Cemetery, Waxahachie, TX: FindAGrave #94741897)

Rose Ryder provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
04/26/2022. Unpublished database.