title: Emanuel Handy
text: # Emanuel Handy
  
  Emanuel Handy, sometimes recorded as Emmanuel Handy, was a sergeant in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a delegate to Mississippi's 1868 Constitutional Convention, a farmer, a constable, and a state legislator in Mississippi. He was born in Copiah County, Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1870 to 1873.
  
  