Read windows filename from file in Java

Background

For a program I'm writing I need to be able to read Windows filenames from a file. Unfortunately, Windows use \ instead of /, which makes this tricky. I've been trying different ways, but it never seems to work. Here's the code

try{
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(cfgFilePath));
    try{
        String line;
        while(line = reader.readLine()!=null){
            if(line.indexof("LocalFile") != -1){
                this.localFile = line.substring(line.indexOf(" ")+1);
                System.out.println("Value: " + this.localFile);
            }
        }
    }
}catch(IOException ee){
    System.err.println(ee.getMessage());
}

If I supply the filepath C:, so that the config file says LocalFile C:, it works fine and prints Value: C: to the console. C:\ seems to work fine too; Value: C:\ is printed. But when I try C:\Users it doesn't work. It prints C:\Users, but not with my println call. I tried adding backslashes, so the path is C:\\Users and it still doesn't work. When debugging, it seems the application returns from the function in which this is ran when hitting the while-loop to read the line containing the file path.

Question

I suppose it has to do with the fact that \U is not a valid character and I don't want the user to be forced to write the file path in a special format just because my program can't handle it. So how can I fix this?