The battery was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on August 9, 1861, under the command of Captain John W. Rabb.
The battery was attached to Fremont's Army of the West to November 1861.
2nd Brigade, District of the Frontier, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to September 1864.
Post and District of Nashville, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to February 1865.
Garrison artillery, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to July 1865.
The 2nd Indiana Battery Light Artillery mustered out of service on July 3, 1865, in Indianapolis.
Operations in Indian Territory and Arkansas July to September.
Cotton Gap, Devil's Backbone, Fort Smith September 1.
Duty at Waldron and Fort Smith and operations in western Arkansas until March 1864.
Moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and assigned to duty there as garrison artillery November 1864 to June 1865.