Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery, an element of the 10th Division. Organized 11 August 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas. Demobilized 4 February 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas. Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery Battalion. Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Benning, Georgia, as an element of the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division).

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery Battalion. Inactivated 14 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina. Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California. Inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division.

Redesignated 30 April 1959 as Battery C, 29th Artillery; concurrently, withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the Second United States Army. Activated 1 June 1959 at Westminster, Maryland. Relieved 1 January 1966 from assignment to the Second United States Army and assigned to the First United States Army. Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery. Inactivated 16 September 1979 at Westminster, Maryland.

Withdrawn 1 April 1984 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; concurrently, redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado (organic elements constituted and activated).