“Comrades Fill No Glass for Me” was submitted for copyright deposit on November 23, 1855, by Miller & Beacham, Baltimore. The songs lyrics were published in the Cincinnati Gazette on January 22, 1857, in an article on Foster written by John B. Russell.
According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:
In the six months immediately following his father’s death, Stephen published only two songs, “The Village Maiden” and “Comrades, Fill No Glass for Me.”
Later she writes: