The 5th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

(Robert R. Stewart was commissioned October 18, 1862 to command the regiment, but he declined.)

The regiment was attached to District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, Department of the Ohio, to August 1863.

4th Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to November 1863.

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Department of the Ohio, to May 1864.

1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, XXIII Corps, to July 1864.

2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, XXIII Corps, to August 1864.

1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, XXIII Corps, to September 1864.

Operations against Morgan in Kentucky December 22, 1862, to January 2, 1863 (Companies C, F, & I).

Action Burkesville Road, near Green's Chapel, December 25, 1862 (Companies C, F, & I).

Scout duty from Glasgow, Kentucky, toward the Cumberland River until April 17, 1863.

Expedition from Glasgow to Burkesville and Tennessee state line June 8–10.

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.

Sunshine Church, Hillsboro, July 30–31 (most of the regiment captured).

Dismounted men on guard duty at Decatur and Atlanta until September 13.

Ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, and guard duty there until January 1865.

Post duty at Pulaski and operations against guerrillas in that vicinity until June.