3rd Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The battery was attached to Fremont's Army of the West and Department of the Missouri to February 1862.
Artillery, 3rd Division, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to December 1864.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to February 1865.
The 3rd Indiana Battery Light Artillery mustered out of service on August 21, 1865, in Indianapolis.
Duty at Springfield, Rolla, and St. Louis, Missouri, November 1862 to December 1863.
Smith's Campaign in western Tennessee against Forrest December 20–26.
Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, Mississippi, July 5–21.
Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Mississippi, August 1–30.
Duty at Montgomery and Selma till July 30 when the battery was ordered to Indianapolis, Indiana.
According to a report by Lieutenant Thomas J. Ginn, at the Battle of Yellow Bayou on May 18, 1864, the battery's guns consisted of two M1857 12-pounder Napoleons, two 14-pounder James rifles, and two M1841 6-pounder field guns.