Secondary blog page

Hi there,

I’m trying to set up a custom, secondary blog posts page that should list just the posts from a certain category.
I don’t want to use a category page for that because of its’ URL structure and page elements that are shown on the archives pages that I don’t want visible on the secondary blog.

I have set up a page for the secondary blog and assigned a custom php template to it based on the home.php, but it’s not showing anything. I’d like this page to have the same functionality as the archives page, in terms of the loop layout chosen and sidebar, could you advise on how to get that “archive-like” layout on this page?