Yeaah.. I dont think Blogger allows you to add it manually you need to have a 3-Column Template for that purpose
thank you for the help suicidalsam for the great advise. I got a good feel for how it works. What i did was copy and paste the code for sidebar and renamed it newsidebar. after evening out the margins and ajusting the sidebar stuff its up and running. Thanks again
no problem. also checkout http://beautifulbeta.blogspot.com/ for some more blogger hacks and http://www.geckoandfly.com/blogspot-templates/ for cool blogger templates.